Payne v. Bearden
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri; David P. Dyer, Judge. Action by Agnes Bearden, as administratrix, against John Barton Payne, Director General of Railroads. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GARLAND, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error, hereafter plaintiff, brought this action against the Director General of Railroads, hereafter defendant, to recover damages for the death of her husband, Erank D. Bearden, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of said defendant in operating the East St. Louis Connecting Railroad Company. At the trial the only defense made was that the movement of the string of cars between two of which Bearden was killed by reason of a defective coupling was not an interstate movement. There was a verdict for the plaintiff. Defendant contends that the…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- New York Central Railroad Company v. WinfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- St. Louis, San Francisco & Texas Railway Co. v. SealeSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Erie Railroad Company v. WinfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Delk v. St. Louis & San Francisco RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
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- Gill v. Baltimore Ohio Railroad Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1924