Legal Opinion
Napier v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 29, 1926No. Nos. 87, 310, and 311PublishedCited by 332 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brandeis
Thes'e cases require a determination of the scope and •effect of the federal Locomotive Boiler Inspection Act. February 17, 1911, c. 103, 36 Stat. 913, as amended March 4, 1915, c. 169, 38 Stat. 1192, and June 7, 1924, c. 355, 43 Stat. 659. The main question, which is the same in the three cases, is one of statutory construction. It is whether the Boiler Inspection Act has occupied the field of regulating locomotive equipment used on a highway of interstate commerce, so as to preclude state legislation. Congress obviously has power to do so. Compare Northern Pacific R. R. Co. v. Washington,…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Savage v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Southern Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Reid v. ColoradoSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. GroegerSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
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3Cited by332 opinions
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