Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Blalack
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Fifth District, in an appeal from Hunt County. Mrs. Blalack and others sued the railway company and had judgment. Defendants appealed and on affirmance applied for a writ of error, which was at first refused, afterwards granted on motion for rehearing.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Brown
The plaintiff in error was operating passenger trains over its line of road from Greenville, Texas, to Shreveport, Louisiana, and we will assume that Shreveport is in the State of Louisiana. For the purposes of this case we will assume that the employes engaged in operating the through trains were engaged in interstate commerce, and, in case of injury while so engaged, the liability of the railroad company must be ascertained under the Act of the Congress of the United States known as the Employers’ Liability Act.
The defendants in error claimed that Frank Blalack, the husband of Mrs. Linnie…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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