Legal Opinion
Gleason v. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 2, 1929No. 51PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
This case is here on certiorari, 276 U. S. 612, to review a judgment of the Cireuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 21 F. (2d) 883, reversing a judgment for petitioner of the District Court for southern Georgia.
At the trial by jury it appeared that respondent railway company has terminals for the receipt and delivery' of freight both at Charleston, S. C. and Savannah, Ga.; that McDonnell was an employee of respondent at its Savannah office, whose duty it was, and whose continuous practice it had been, to give notice to those engaged in the cotton trade, including petitioner, a cotton…
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- Aiken v. Holyoke Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Friedlander v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Bank of Batavia v. New York, Lake Erie & Western RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Fifth Avenue Bank v. Forty-second Street & Grand Street Ferry RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
- McCord v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1888
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- Ultramares Corp. v. ToucheNew York Court of Appeals · 1931
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- John A. Ackerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1999
- United States v. Acme Process Equipment Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1967
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