LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE R.R. CO. v. GASTON

Nos. 451, 466.

216 U.S. 418 (1910)

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. GASTON. CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY COMPANY v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Submitted January 3, 1910.

Decided February 21, 1910.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Gregory L. Smith, with whom Mr. H.L. Stone was on the brief, for plaintiff in error in No. 451.

Mr. Alfred P. Thom, with whom Mr. Alexander Pope Humphrey and Mr. James Weatherly were on the brief, for Southern Railway Company, plaintiff in error in No. 450, argued simultaneously herewith.

Mr. Robert E. Steiner, Mr. Leon Weil, Mr. T.M. Cunningham, Jr., Mr. A.R. Lawton and Mr. Horace Stringfellow for plaintiff in error in No. 466, submitted.

Mr. Alexander Garber, Attorney General of the State of Alabama, and Mr. Samuel Weakley, with whom Mr. Henry C. Selheimer was on the brief, for defendant in error.


No. 466. Submitted January 3, 1910.

MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

No. 451 was argued and submitted with Southern Railway Co. v. Greene, No. 450, just decided. Nos. 451 and 466 were argued at the same time in the Supreme Court of Alabama with the case of Southern Railway Co. v. Greene, No. 450, and were decided on the authority of that case. That court said (49 So. Rep. 412): "These cases [Nos. 450, 451 and...

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