ELGIN, JOLIET & EASTERN RAILWAY CO. v. GIBSON

No. 565.

355 U.S. 897 (1957)

ELGIN, JOLIET & EASTERN RAILWAY CO. v. GIBSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

December 9, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harlan L. Hackbert for petitioner. Justin Waitkus for respondent.


Certiorari denied.

Memorandum of MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER, in which MR. JUSTICE HARLAN joins.

Although the Court has definitively decided that a denial of a petition for certiorari carries no legal significance. Brown v. Allen, 344 U.S. 443, 489-497, the bar, in briefs, and lower courts, in their opinions, continue to note such denials by way of reinforcing the authority of cited lower court decisions. It has therefore...

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