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ERIE R. CO. v. TOMPKINS

No. 367.

304 U.S. 64 (1938)

58 S.Ct. 817

82 L.Ed. 1188

ERIE RAILROAD CO. v. TOMPKINS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 25, 1938.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Theodore Kiendl, with whom Messrs. William C. Cannon and Harold W. Bissell were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Fred H. Rees, with whom Messrs. Alexander L. Strouse and William Walsh were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question for decision is whether the oft-challenged doctrine of Swift v. Tyson1 shall now be disapproved.

Tompkins, a citizen of Pennsylvania, was injured on a dark night by a passing freight train of the Erie Railroad Company while walking along its right of way at Hughestown in that State. He claimed that the accident...

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