Easterling Lumber Co. v. Pierce
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of two statutes of Mississippi, one abolishing the defense of fellow servant in certain cases, and the other creating a presumption of negligence in certain cases, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum opinion by direction of the court, by
Mr. Chief Justice White.
The injuries for which damages were awarded by the judgment sought to be reviewed (64 So. Rep. 461) happened on a steam logging railroad engaged in purely domestic business. The power to here review is based on two. constitutional grounds seasonably asserted below assailing two state statutes, the one (chap. 194, Miss. Laws of 1908, p. 204) enacted before the accident, doing away in the cases for which it provided with the principle of fellow servant; and the other (chap. 215, Miss. Laws of 1912, p. 290), enacted after…
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