Legal Opinion
Chessie Logistics Company, LLC v. Krinos Holdings, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 15, 2017No. 16-4257PublishedCited by 146 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff here is a rail carrier, Ches-sie Logistics, which claims it was injured when its neighbor Krinos damaged its railroad tracks. Chessie Logistics sued for trespass, negligence, and violation of a federal railroad statute. The district court dismissed the statutory claim and then granted summary judgment to defendants on Chessie’s claims for trespass and negligence. On appeal, Chessie seeks to reinstate its claim under the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 and its late effort to transform its common-law negligence theory into a…
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