Louisville & N. R. v. East Tennessee, V. & G. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Eastern District of Tennessee. This was a writ of error to the judgment of the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Tennessee, northern division, in favor of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Company, hereafter referred to as the “Tennessee Company,” against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, hereafter referred to as the “Louisville Company,”…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Eastern District of Tennessee. This was a writ of error to the judgment of the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Tennessee, northern division, in favor of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Company, hereafter referred to as the “Tennessee Company,” against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, hereafter referred to as the “Louisville Company,” for §11,219.94, as damages for an injury to a sleeping car caused by the collision with it of a freight train of the…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, Circuit Judge
The only real defense in this case was that the Cincinnati Company was guilty of contributory negligence, and the chief errors assigned are based on rulings made in the trial of this issue. All the evidence on both sides showed, without contradiction, that the Louisville Company was guilty of negligence in sending out a freight train equipped with poor brakes. Counsel for defendant in error contend that the errors assigned on the issue of contributory negligence are immaterial, because the recovery of the Tennessee Company, the plaintiff below, could not be defeated by the contributory…
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