Anthony v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
error to the circuit court of the united states for the EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice-Field
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action by the plaintiff to recover damages from the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company for injuries suffered by him by reason of the derailment of a car attached to a train belonging to that company, in which he was being carried'as a passenger on its line from Louisville, Kentucky, to St. Louis, Missouri.
The answer 'of the defendant set up that the accident was caused by reason of a latent or hidden defect or flaw in the body of a steel rail laid on the track of the road, a defect which no outward inspection could detect.…
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