Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Harris
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was an action brought in the Circuit Court of the United. States for the District of Colorado by Robert E. Harris against the Union Pacific Railway Company to recover for personal injuries received by him while he was a passenger on defendant’s train.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was an action brought in the Circuit Court of the United. States for the District of Colorado by Robert E. Harris against the Union Pacific Railway Company to recover for personal injuries received by him while he was a passenger on defendant’s train. Plaintiff recovered judgment in the Circuit Court and the defendant sued out a writ of error from the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, by which the judgment was affirmed. 63 Fed. Rep. 800. A writ of error from this court was allowed and the cause having been…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The complaint alleged Harris to be “ a citizen of the State of Colorado,” and complained of “ the Union Pacific Railway-Company, defendant, which was heretofore and now is duly chartered and organized under and by virtue of the laws of the United States, and having its principal place of business in the city of Omaha and State of Nebraska, and is now and was at the time and times hereinafter stated, a citizen of the State of Nebraska.” The motion to dismiss is made upon the ground that the judgment of. the Circuit Court of Appeals was final, inasmuch as the jurisdiction was dependent upon the…
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