Hall v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Iowa
At Law. On motion to remand. This action was commenced in the district court of Iowa in and for Linn county, August 25, 1906. The petition alleges that defendant is a corporation duly organized under the laws of Iowa and Illinois, and is a common carrier engaged in operating a line of railroad from Chicago, in the state of Illinois, westward into and through the state of Iowa; that on December 13, 1905, said Edward W. Griffiths, Jr., was in the employ of the defendant upon…
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At Law. On motion to remand. This action was commenced in the district court of Iowa in and for Linn county, August 25, 1906. The petition alleges that defendant is a corporation duly organized under the laws of Iowa and Illinois, and is a common carrier engaged in operating a line of railroad from Chicago, in the state of Illinois, westward into and through the state of Iowa; that on December 13, 1905, said Edward W. Griffiths, Jr., was in the employ of the defendant upon one of its trains in Iowa, and on that day, while in the discharge of his duty in uncoupling the air hose and cars of…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, District Judge
(after stating the facts). The claimed right to remove this cause from the state court rests solely upon the ground that the action is one arising under a law of the United States, viz., the act of Congress approved June 11, 1906, commonly known as the “Employers’ Liability Act.” Act June 11, 1906, c. 3073, 34 Stat. 232.
The act is as follows:
“That every common carrier engaged in trade or commerce in the District of Columbia, or in any territory of the United States, or between the several states, or between any territory and another, or between any territory or territories and any state or…
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