Legal Opinion

Pennsylvania R. Co. v. Hummel

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided January 21, 1909No. 24PublishedCited by 18 opinions

In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before DALLAS, Circuit Judge, and LANNING, District Judge.

1Opinion of the Court

LANNING, District Judge.

This is an action in tort. In the statement of his case, Hummel, the plaintiff helow, averred that on March 20, 1907, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the defendant below, upon an order of I. P. Thomas & Son, sent certain of its box freight cars upon one of its floats to that firm’s private wharf, at Mantua Point, N. J., to be loaded with merchandise for shipment by that firm; that the plaintiff, on the day above mentioned, “occupying the position of foreman for the said I. P. Thomas & Son, was sent by his employers to their private wharf to load the aforesaid cars”;…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Smith v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  2. Savings Bank v. WardSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
  3. Huset v. J. I. Case Threshing Mach. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1903
  4. Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Call Publishing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1901
  5. Van Winkle v. American Steam Boiler Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1890

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Markley v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1936
  2. Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1915
  3. Waldron v. Director General of RailroadsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1920
  4. Coreland v. Chicago, B. & Q. R.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1923
  5. St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. v. EwanCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1928

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