Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Ferris
Supreme Court of the United States
error to the court of civil appeals for the third supreme JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. This was an action commenced in the District Court of Bastrop County, Texas, on January 31, 1899, by the defendants in error, as plaintiffs, to recover damages sustained by the death of their father, charged to have been occasioned through the negligence of the railway company.
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error to the court of civil appeals for the third supreme JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. This was an action commenced in the District Court of Bastrop County, Texas, on January 31, 1899, by the defendants in error, as plaintiffs, to recover damages sustained by the death of their father, charged to have been occasioned through the negligence of the railway company. Judgment having been rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, it was, taken on appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third Supreme Judicial District of the State of Texas, and by that court affirmed. An application to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
This case is before us on a motion to dismiss or affirm. The parties being citizens of the same. State, the jurisdiction of this court is invoked on the alleged ground of a Federal question. It is contended that the amendment of April 22, 1897, which takes away in cases in which a corporation is a party on either side the right to preliminary ex parte depositions, is in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, inasmuch as it is unwarranted class legislation, and denies the equal protection of the laws.
If we examine the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, or the…
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