Pacific Coast Ry. Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of California. Proceeding by the United States against the Pacific Coast Railway Company for violation of the safety appliance act. Judgment for the United States, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of California. Proceeding by the United States against the Pacific Coast Railway Company for violation of the safety appliance act. Judgment for the United States, and defendant brings error. Tlio plaintiff in error is a common carrier, organized under the laws of the state of California, engaged in operating a narrow-gauge railway situate entirely within two counties of that state, Santa Barbara and San Buis Obispo counties. As such common carrier, it received at San Luis Obispo, from the…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The principal question which the writ of error brings to our attention is whether or not the plaintiff in error has been engaged in interstate commerce by railroad, within the safety appliance act of Congress of March 2, 1893 (27 Stat. 531, c. 196 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3174]), and the amendment thereto of March 2, 1903 (32 Stat. 943, c. 976 [ Ü. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1907, p. 885]). It is not denied that its trains and cars were not equipped as required by that act. The question is one in answer to which the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit…
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