Tullis v. Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. This case came to this court on the following certificate of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: “ In this case, duly argued and submitted to this court, there arises a question of law concerning which this court desires the instruction of the‘Supreme Court of the United States.
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. This case came to this court on the following certificate of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: “ In this case, duly argued and submitted to this court, there arises a question of law concerning which this court desires the instruction of the‘Supreme Court of the United States. The action was brought by the plaintiff in error to recover damages for an injury suffered while in the employment of the defendant in error, caused by a negligent act of a fellow servant, for which the defendant in…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The contention is that the act referred to is in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment because it denies the equal protection of the laws to the corporations to which it is appli-' cable.
In Pittsburgh &c. Railroad Company v. Montgomery, 152 Indiana, 1, the statute in question was held valid as to railroad companies, and it was also held that objection to its validity could not be made by such companies on the ground that it embraced all corporations except municipal, and that there were some-corporations whose business would not bring them within the reason of the classification. In…
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