United States v. Colorado & N. W. R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. The Colorado & Northwestern Railroad Company, a corporation of Colorado, owned and operated a narrow gauge railroad, which consisted of a main line about 10 miles long from Boulder to Sunset, and two branches, each about 18 miles in length to Eldora and Ward, respectively. This entire railroad was within the state of Colorado.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. The Colorado & Northwestern Railroad Company, a corporation of Colorado, owned and operated a narrow gauge railroad, which consisted of a main line about 10 miles long from Boulder to Sunset, and two branches, each about 18 miles in length to Eldora and Ward, respectively. This entire railroad was within the state of Colorado. The Northwestern Company was a common carrier, and in February, 1906, it transported in one of its freight cars from1 Boulder, where it had received it from the Union Pacific Railroad…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This case presents a single question. Is a common carrier which operates, a railroad entirely within a single state, and transports thereon articles of commerce shipped in continuous passages from places without the state to stations on its road, or from stations on its road to points without the state, free from any common control, management, or arrangement with another carrier for a continuous carriage or shipment thereof, subject to the provisions of the safety appliance acts?
These acts declare that: “It shall be unlawful for any common carrier engaged…
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