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DAVIS v. GREEN

No. 132.

260 U.S. 349 (1922)

DAVIS, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS, AND AGENT UNDER SECTION 206 OF TRANSPORTATION ACT OF 1920 v. GREEN, ADMINISTRATRIX OF GREEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 4, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T.J. Wills for petitioner.

Mr. J.W. Cassedy, with whom Mr. E.L. Dent was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an action made up of the consolidation of two suits, both brought to make the plaintiff in error liable for what is alleged to have been the wilful and wanton killing of Jesse Green, a conductor on the line of the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company, by one McLendon, an engineer. The first suit, although alleging that the railroad was a common carrier both intra and interstate, may be taken to have...

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