ST. L. & IRON MTN. RY. v. McWHIRTER

No. 541.

229 U.S. 265 (1913)

ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN & SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. McWHIRTER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 10, 1913.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R.P. Railey, with whom Mr. M.L. Clardy and Mr. E.T. Bullock were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. William V. Eaton, with whom Mr. Aubrey Everett Boyd was on the brief, for defendant in error.


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

The record in this case is confusedly arranged, and numerous matters are pressed in argument which we deem to be irrelevant. Not following the various steps by which the petition as originally filed and the answer were both frequently amended, the case as finally put at issue was as follows: The defendant in error as administratrix of the estate of her husband Etwal McWhirter, sued the plaintiff in error...

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