Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Sowers
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. The facts are stated in the opinion. The statute of the Territory of New Mexico herein interposed was a valid and.subsisting law at the time of the occurrences stated, and, as such, was entitled to respect and consideration in the courts of a sister jurisdiction, and the failure to so respect said statute was a violation of Art. IV, § 1, of the Constitution of the United States. ■ In the absence of disapproval by the Congress it must be assumed that the act in question is a valid and binding…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
delivered the .opinion of the court.
This is a writ of error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the *59Fourth Supreme Judicial District of the State of Texas. The defendant in error, George A. Sowers, a citizen of Arizona, recovered judgment in the District Court of El Paso County, Texas, in the sum of $5,000) for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him while employed in the service of the plaintiff in error as a brakeman in the Territory of New Mexico. The judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 99 S. W. Rep. 190. Subsequently leave to file a petition in error was…
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