Gray v. Louisville & N. R.
District Court, E.D. Tennessee
At Law. Action by J. R. Gray against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. On plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.
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At Law. Action by J. R. Gray against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. On plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. This suit was brought by the plaintiff, a citizen of Tennessee, as administrator, against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co., a citizen of Kentucky, and an interstate carrier of freight and passengers, to recover $20,-000.00 damages for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, who was killed while in the employment of the defendant as a switchman, by reason of . the ’ defendant’s alleged non-compliance with the provisions of the Federal Safety Appliance Act (Act March…
1Opinion of the Court
SANFORD, District Judge.
[1] 1. It is clear that under the undisputed facts of this case the movement of the defendant’s car on which the coupling apparatus had been destroyed and which was about to be attached to another car and removed to the repair shops was in violation of the Safety Appliance Act, under the doctrine of St. Louis Ry. Co. v. Taylor, 210 U. S. 281, 28 Sup. Ct. 616, 52 L. Ed. 1061; Chicago Ry. Co. v. United States, 220 U. S. 559, 31 Sup. Ct. 612, 55 L. Ed. 582; Delk v. Railway Co., 220 U. S. 580, 31 Sup. Ct. 617, 55 L. Ed. 590; Southern Ry. Co. v. United States, 222 U. S. 20,…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1904
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Southern Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Schlemmer v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
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