Legal Opinion
McKnett v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 30, 1934No. 597PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brandeis
This action was brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, to recover damages for an injury suffered in Tennessee. The plaintiff, McKnett, is a resident of Tennessee. The defendant, St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company, is a foreign corporation doing business in Alabama. It pleaded in abatement that the court lacked jurisdiction, since the cause of action had arisen wholly in Tennessee and did not arise by the common law or statute of that State. The plea rested upon the limiting words of the Act of 1907, now embodied in § 5681,…
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