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DELK v. ST. LOUIS & SAN FRANCISCO R.R.

No. 88.

220 U.S. 580 (1911)

31 S.Ct. 617

55 L.Ed. 590

DELK v. ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 15, 1911.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Luther M. Walter and Mr. W.A. Percy, with whom Mr. T.F. Kelley was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Edward T. Miller, with whom Mr. W.F. Evans was on the brief, for respondent.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Fowler, with whom Mr. Barton Corneau, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States as amicus curiae.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

The St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company, a Missouri corporation engaged in commerce as a carrier of freight and passengers through Tennessee and other States, was sued in one of the courts of Tennessee by the plaintiff in error, Delk, for damages alleged to have been sustained by him while engaged in the discharge of his duties as an employe of the company. On the petition of the railroad company the...

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