United States v. Panhandle & S. F. Ry. Co.

JAMES C. WILSON, District Judge.

In this action to recover penalties under the Safety Appliance Act, the defendant has pleaded guilty to the first count .in the plaintiff’s petition. In the second count of the plaintiff’s petition the allegations are:

“Defendant, on November 12, 1932, operated on its line of railroad, over a part of a highway of interstate commerce, one train, to wit: Its own No. 41, consisting of forty-one cars, drawn by its own locomotive engine No. 1057, all of said cars being equipped with power or train brakes, not less than 85 per cent thereof, to wit: forty cars, having…