Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Padgett
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of this court of writs of error to review a judgment of the state court under § 237, Judicial Code, are stated in the opinion. The right, privilege or immunity claimed by defendant below under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act was specially set up or claimed by defendant within § 237 of the Code.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of this court of writs of error to review a judgment of the state court under § 237, Judicial Code, are stated in the opinion. The right, privilege or immunity claimed by defendant below under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act was specially set up or claimed by defendant within § 237 of the Code. This court will review the findings of fact in the lower courts under the circumstances of this case. The legal conclusions of the state court upon facts found were erroneous. There is evidence…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
Is there jurisdiction to review the action of the court below in affirming the judgment of the trial court which was entered on the verdict of a jury, and if so, was error below committed, are the questions for decision (83 S. E. Rep. 633).
The suit was brought to recover damages alleged to have been suffered by the death of Lewis H. Padgett, a railroad engineer in the service of the defendant company* the plaintiff in error, caused by his having fallen during the early morning hours into a drop pit in a locomotive roundhouse belonging to the company. The negligence charged was not only the…
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