Legal Opinion

Fleischmann Malting Co. v. Mrkacek

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided August 4, 1926No. 3673PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

The judgment assailed was upon a verdict for defendant in error in her suit for personal injury.

Plaintiff in error operated a grain elevator and malthouse at Chicago. Adjacent to its buildings, and between them and the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad, there were on its premises two switch tracks for handling its cars of grain, 8 or 10 carloads daily, which were customarily switched there early in the day. The cars would then be moved by a rope operated by power within the elevator, and each loaded ear run onto a scale on one of these switch tracks, weighed, and…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Bennett v. Railroad Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1881
  2. Chantangco v. AbaroaSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
  3. Illinois Cent. R. v. GriffinCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1897
  4. De Haven v. Hennessey Bros. & Evans Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1905

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Gilliland v. BondurantSupreme Court of Missouri · 1933
  2. Atchison, T. & S. F. RY. Co. v. CondosCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1929
  3. Henry W. Cross Co. v. BurnsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1936
  4. Taylor v. McCowat-Mercer Printing Co.District Court, W.D. Tennessee · 1939
  5. (PC) Sullivan v. BiterDistrict Court, E.D. California · 2019

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