Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad v. George
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. The facts, which involve the validity of a judgment of the courts of the State of Georgia and the determination of whether those courts gave full faith and credit to a statute of the State of Alabama affecting the cause of action, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. The facts, which involve the validity of a judgment of the courts of the State of Georgia and the determination of whether those courts gave full faith and credit to a statute of the State of Alabama affecting the cause of action, are stated in the opinion. The mandate of the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution of the United States is not obeyed in the courts of a State when it recognizes the public acts of a sister State, creating a right of action nonexistent at the common law, and refuses compliance with the provision of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lamar
Wiley George, the defendant in error, was an engineer employed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company at its steel plant in Jefferson County, Alabama. While he was under a locomotive repairing the brakes, a defective throttle allowed steam to leak into the cylinder causing the engine to move forward automatically in consequence of which he was seriously injured. He brought suit by attachment, in the City Court of Atlanta, Georgia, founding his action on § 3910 of the Alabama Code of 1907, which makes the master liable to the employé when the injury is “caused by reason of any defect…
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