LEE v. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RY.

No. 422.

260 U.S. 653 (1923)

LEE v. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 22, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Allan D. Cole, with whom Mr. H.W. Cole and Mr. W.A. Byron were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. E.L. Worthington, with whom Mr. LeWright Browning and Mr. Stanley Reed were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was an action to recover damages in the sum of ten thousand dollars for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff while entering one of the defendant's passenger trains in Kentucky for an intrastate trip. The plaintiff was a citizen and resident of Taxes and the defendant a corporate citizen and resident of Virginia. The action was begun in a state court in Bracken County, Kentucky...

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