Cleveland, C., C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Error to tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Southern District of Illinois. This is an action for personal injuries suffered by the defendant in error while in the service of the plaintiff in error as one of a crew of men called the “bridge gang,” and employed generally in building and repairing bridges, depots, platforms, and other structures, and, at the time of the injury complained of, engaged in taking down a transfer shed near Cairo, Ill.
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Southern District of Illinois. This is an action for personal injuries suffered by the defendant in error while in the service of the plaintiff in error as one of a crew of men called the “bridge gang,” and employed generally in building and repairing bridges, depots, platforms, and other structures, and, at the time of the injury complained of, engaged in taking down a transfer shed near Cairo, Ill. Upon the first hearing of the case the judgment below was affirmed. 18 U. S. App. 10, 6 C. C. A. 142, 56 Fed. 804. But in view of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, Circuit Judge
The questions certified to the supreme court — though perhaps not identical, unless it be the first, with questions presented by (he record — were deemed t;o be closely pertinent; and the aim was to obtain, in answer to the fourth, a declaration of principle, and in answer to the others, if the principle suggested were affirmed, guidance for its application. 'The particulars in which the questions were found to he inexplicit: not: having been pointed out, we are unable to put them in a form better calculated to elicit tho information which we sought. Indeed, the necessity for so doing has…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Central Railroad Company v. KeeganSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
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