St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. v. Ewan

OTIS, District Judge.

The defendant in error, who was plaintiff below and will be referred to herein as the plaintiff, at the time of the injury on account of which this suit was brought, was employed by the Quality Coal Company, which was engaged in operating a coal mine near Arcadia, Kan. Cars for the transportation of coal mined by the plaintiff’s employer were supplied by the plaintiff in error, herein referred to as the *620defendant. The ears were not directly ordered from the defendant by the Quality Coal Company, but by the Maekie-Clemens Company, a selling agency for the coal company.…