St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. McWhirter
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OP THE STATE OP KENTUCKY: The facts, which involve the construction of the Hours of Service Apt of 1907, and the liability of a railroad company thereunder, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
The record in this case is confusedly arranged, and numerous matters are pressed in argument which we deem to be irrelevant. Not following the various steps by which the petition as originally filed and the answer, were both frequently amended, the case as finally put at issue was as follows: The defendant in error as administratrix of .the estate of her husband Etwal McWhirter, sued the plaintiff in error, for the benefit of herself and her four infant children; to recover damages alleged to have been suffered by f.he death of McWhirter. It was alleged that the deceased was employed as a…
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