Chicago Great Western R. v. Hulbert
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Iowa; Henry Thomas Reed, Judge. ■ Action by William Hulbert against the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by Hulbert, a pedestrian on a public street, for personal injuries resulting from the violent breaking, by some passenger cars negligently managed, of a wire care*250lessly allowed by an electric light company to hang low across the railroad trade. The action was begun in a state court of Iowa against both the railroad company and the electric light company. The plaintiff and the electric light- company were citizens of that state; the railroad company was a citizen of Illinois. The railroad company, claiming there was a separable controversy between it and…
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- Gableman v. Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Eddy v. LafayetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Hanlon v. SmithDistrict Court, N.D. Iowa · 1909
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