Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. United States

RIDDICK, Circuit Judge.

The Texas and Pacific Railway Company appeals from a judgment in a civil action brought by the United States under the Safety Appliance Acts, 45 U.S.C.A. §§ 1-16.

So far as material on this appeal the complaint charged the Texas and Pacific with five separate violations of the Acts, committed in hauling five admittedly defective freight cars between two points in the joint freight and terminal yards of Texas and Pacific Railway Company and the Missouri-Pacific Railroad Company in Tex-arkana, U. S. A., the movement of the cars beginning in Arkansas and ending in Texas.…