Legal Opinion
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. Co. v. the WC Harms
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided May 17, 1954No. 1081PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNERLY, Chief Judge.
A collision between a fast passenger train and a river barge is unusual, but not impossible, as this Record discloses. This suit is by libellant, a Railroad Company, against a tug and barge, and their owner and operator, for damages alleged to have been caused Railroad Company by such a collision.
Libellant, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, is a railroad corporation, maintaining railroad lines or tracks between St. Louis, Missouri, and Burlington, Iowa, passing through the town of Keokuk, Iowa, over which lines or tracks it operates trains for the carriage…
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