Legal Opinion

Pennsylvania Co. v. Roy

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided November 22, 1880PublishedCited by 274 opinions

' • Error to the Circuit Court of' the United States for the Northerri District of Illinois. Thé facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan

This is a writ of errorr from a judgment for the sum of $10,000, the amount assessed as damages sustained by the defendant in error, in consequence of personal injuries received while riding, as a passenger, in a- sleeping-car which belonged to the Pullman Palace Car Company, but constituting, at the ■time the injuries were received, a part of a train of cars managed and controlled by the Pennsylvania Company, as lessee and operator of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway. The action was commenced in the Supreme Court of Cook County, Illinois, against the Pennsylvania Company, the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Stokes v. SaltonstallSupreme Court of the United States · 1839
  2. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad v. DerbySupreme Court of the United States · 1853
  3. Railroad Company v. PollardSupreme Court of the United States · 1875

3Cited by274 opinions

  1. Sweeney v. ErvingSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
  2. Slattery v. Marra Bros., Inc. Marra Bros., Inc. v. Wm. Spencer & Son CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1951
  3. Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans Railroad v. Pullman Southern Car Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1891
  4. Felton v. SpiroCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1897
  5. United States v. Conrad Whitehead, Ii, United States of America v. Hector QuesadaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1988

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