Kerlin v. Chicago, P. & St. L. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana
At Law. Action by Anna J. Kerlin, administratrix, against the Chicago, Pittsburgh & St. Louis Ilailroad Company et al., for damages for the death of an employe in a collision. Heard on demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Bakue, District Judge.
Complaint in two paragraphs, to each of which the defendants severally demur for want of facts.
The first paragraph, so far as material to the present inquiry, alleges that the plaintiff's intestate was in the employ of the defendant as baggage master, having charge of a baggage car of one of the passenger trains run by defendant between Chicago, Ill., and Indianapolis, lnd., *186known as “Louisville No. 14;” that another one of-the defendant’s passenger trains, running between Chicago, Ill., and Cincinnati, Ohio, of which Thomas Lamb was conductor, was known as “ Cincinnati…
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- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. RossSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Co. v. AdamsIndiana Supreme Court · 1886
- Taylor v. Evansville & Terre Haute RailroadIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
- McCosker v. . Long Island Railroad Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1881
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