Pennsylvania Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio; John H. Clarke, Judge. Action for penalties by the United States against the Pennsylvania Company. Judgment (237 Fed. 471) for the United States, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
This is an action brought by the United States to recover from the Railroad Company penalties for alleged violation of the federal Safety Appliance Acts. On July 25, 1913, the Railroad Company made up at Mosier, Ohio, a “hospital” train of 25 empty, bad-order cars, not equipped with automatic couplers operating automatically, and all but one fastened to the other cars by means of chains, together with an engine, tender, and caboose. The train ran from Mosier to Haselton, Ohio, where it took on 8 more bad-order cars, similarly defective, and similarly chained to the…
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