GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY CO. v. CUMMINGS

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106 U.S. 700 (1883)

1 S.Ct. 493

27 L.Ed. 266

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY, v. CUMMINGS.

Supreme Court of United States.

January 8, 1883.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Rand for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Almon A. Strout and Mr. George F. Holmes for the defendant in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit brought by Cummings, against the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, to recover damages for an injury which in the course of his employment, as an engine-man of the company, he sustained by a collision of a train on which he was with another train of the same company. His claim is that the collision was caused by the fault and neglect of the company; that of the company that it was caused...

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