Southern Ry. Co. v. Snyder
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Action at law by D. S. Snyder against the Southern Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Action at law by D. S. Snyder against the Southern Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. The defendant in error (plaintiff below) recovered verdict and judgment against plaintiff in error (defendant below) for damages for the loss of an arm, incurred by plaintiff while engaged as yard conductor in coupling ears in the wéfet part of defendant’s “K. & O. yards,” so-called, near Knoxville, Tenn. The ground on which recovery was permitted was that the coupling device on the car…
1Opinion of the CourtKnappen, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The record presents the auestion whether the federal safety appliance statutes (Act March 2, 1893, c. 196, 27 Stat. 531 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3174], and Act March 2, 1903, c. 976, 32 Stat. 943 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1909, p. 1144]) apply to all cars of an interstate carrier by railroad which makes no classification of its cars between interstate and intrastate traffic, but uses such cars without discrimination and interchangeably in both classes of traffic, and without reference to whether a car is or is not, at the time of the alleged violation,…
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