ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. McKENDREE
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF CARLISLE COUNTY, STATE OF KENTUCKY. Defendant in error, plaintiff below, brought an action against "the railroad company as a common carrier operating a railroad through Carlisle County, Kentucky, setting forth that the plaintiff received certain cars of infected cattle and transported them to Arlington, Carlisle County, Kentucky, .where they were unloaded July 13, 1903, and placed in stock-pens, where the cattle of the plaintiff, rightfully…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF CARLISLE COUNTY, STATE OF KENTUCKY. Defendant in error, plaintiff below, brought an action against "the railroad company as a common carrier operating a railroad through Carlisle County, Kentucky, setting forth that the plaintiff received certain cars of infected cattle and transported them to Arlington, Carlisle County, Kentucky, .where they were unloaded July 13, 1903, and placed in stock-pens, where the cattle of the plaintiff, rightfully running loose upon the commons, could and did come in contact with the infected cattle and contracted Texas cow-feVer. That…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
The Government objects to the jurisdiction of this court to entertain the writ of error, upon the ground that no Federal question is raised within the intent and meaning of section 709 of the Revised' Statutes. But we are of opinion that such questions were raised, and that we are required upon this record to review the judgment of the state court.
An inspection of the record show's that the cáse as made by the plaintiff below upon the amended petition was to recover • damages for the infection of his cattle, because of coming in contact with cattle transported by the railroad company from a…
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