SEABOARD AIR LINE v. KOENNECKE

No. 491.

239 U.S. 352 (1915)

SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY v. KOENNECKE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 13, 1915.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Jo Berry S. Lyles for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Frank G. Tompkins, with whom Mr. C.S. Monteith and Mr. W.H. Cobb were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action brought by the defendant in error for causing the death of her intestate, J.T. Koennecke. The latter was run over by a train of the plaintiff in error (the defendant,) while acting as switchman in the defendant's yard at Cayce, South Carolina. The declaration alleged reckless negligence, and set out that the wife and four children named were the only heirs and distributees of the deceased, that...

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