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ATLANTIC COAST LINE R.R. v. MAZURSKY

Nos. 58, 59, 60, 61, 62.

216 U.S. 122 (1910)

30 S.Ct. 378

54 L.Ed. 411

ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. MAZURSKY. SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY v. McTEER. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. CHARLES. SAME v. VON LEHE. SAME v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 21, 1910.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederic D. McKenney, with whom Mr. P.A. Willcox, Mr. F.L. Willcox and Mr. Henry E. Davis were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. J. Fraser Lyon, Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, with whom was Mr. W.H. Townsend, submitted, at the suggestion of the court, a brief in support of the constitutionality of the statute involved as applied in these cases.

There was no appearance or briefs filed for any of the defendants in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

In No. 60, Atlantic Coast Line R.R. Co. v. Charles, which was assumed by the Supreme Court of South Carolina to settle all the others and to have been made the basis for the judgment of that court in all the cases, the state court found, as matter of fact, "the evidence showed that defendant was in possession of the goods lost," and held as matter of law...

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