Legal Opinion

Southern Ry. Co. v. Blunt & Ward

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Alabama

Decided November 9, 1908No. 1,282PublishedCited by 17 opinions

At Law. On demurrers to pleas and motion to amend complaint.

1Opinion of the Court

TOULMIN, District Judge.

This case was formerly before the court on the demurrers filed by defendants to the complaint, and many of the questions raised on this submission were disposed of by the *259ruling on the demurrers. Southern Ry. Co. v. Blunt & Ward (C. C.) 155 Fed. 496.

The plaintiff, Southern Railway Company, claims that under a contract of indemnity which it had with the defendants, Blunt & Ward, the defendants are liable to it, and should reimburse it for the sums paid out by plaintiff to third parties for cotton burned on the platform of defendants, which losses it claims were caused…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Railroad Co. v. LockwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
  2. Phœnix Insurance v. Erie & Western Transportation Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
  3. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Commercial Union InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
  4. Mobile & Montgomery Railway Co. v. JureySupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  5. Hall & Long v. Railroad Cos.Supreme Court of the United States · 1872

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Hanton v. New Orleans & C. R., Light & Power Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1909
  2. Powell v. . Water Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1916
  3. Powell & Powell, Inc. v. Wake Water Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1916
  4. Federal Ins. Co. v. Detroit Fire & Marine Ins.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1913
  5. Manchester Marble Co. v. Rutland RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1927

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