Legal Opinion
Moore v. Illinois Central Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 31, 1941No. 550PublishedCited by 401 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
We granted certiorari in this case, 311 U. S. 643, to review a judgment in which the Circuit Court of Appeals applied a Mississippi statute of limitations contrary to the Mississippi Supreme Court’s application of the same statute to the same plea in the same case. Compare Moore v. Illinois Central Railroad Co., 180 Miss. 276; 176 So. 593, with Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Moore, 112 F. 2d 959.
Petitioner Moore, a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, brought suit for damages against respondent railroad company in a Mississippi state court, claiming that he had been wrongfully…
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