Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Miller
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. The facts, which involve the construction of certain acts of Louisiana, and their constitutionality under the contract clause of the Constitution and whether the courts of Texas, in construing them, had failed to give them full faith and credit as required by the Constitution, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. The facts, which involve the construction of certain acts of Louisiana, and their constitutionality under the contract clause of the Constitution and whether the courts of Texas, in construing them, had failed to give them full faith and credit as required by the Constitution, are stated in the opinion. The immunity provision in § 17 of the incorporating act of the Louisiana Western Railroad Company was specially set up by plaintiffs in error as a valid public act of the State of Louisiana, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
In that view of it which must be accepted here, this case may be stated as follows: It was 'an action to recover damages for the death of a locomotive engineer, resulting from the derailment of an engine which he was driving while in the service of two railroad companies which were jointly operating á line of railroad through the States of Louisiana-and Texas. The derailment and ensuing death occurred in Louisiana, June 1, 1905, and proximately were caused by the negligence ■ of the two companies. One of the companies was incorporated by a Louisiana statute of March 30, 1878, which, contained…
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