Union Stock Yards Co. v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
certificate from the united states circuit court of APPEALS FOR THU EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This case comes here on the certificate of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The facts embodied therein are: The Circuit Court of the United States, sitting at Omaha, Neb., sustained a demurrer to the petition of the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error.
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certificate from the united states circuit court of APPEALS FOR THU EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This case comes here on the certificate of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The facts embodied therein are: The Circuit Court of the United States, sitting at Omaha, Neb., sustained a demurrer to the petition of the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error. The facts stated in the petition, in substance, are as follows: “The plaintiff, The Stock Yards.Company, is a corporation which owns stock yards at South Omaha, Nebraska, railroad tracks appurtenant thereto, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. .Justice Day,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
We take it that this inquiry must be read in the light of the statement accompanying it. While instruction is asked broadly as to the liability of the railroad company to the terminal company, for damages which the latter has been compelled to pay to one of its own employe's on account of injuries sustained, it is doubtless meant to.limit the inquiry to cases wherein such recovery was had because of the established negligence of the terminal company in the performance of the specific duty stated and…
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