NAPIER
v.
ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY.
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY
v.
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF WISCONSIN.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY
v.
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF WISCONSIN.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued October 20, 21, 1926.
Decided November 29, 1926.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mr. Thomas Stevenson, with whom Messrs. George M. Napier, Attorney General of Georgia, and Oscar J. Horn were on the brief, for appellant in No. 87.
Mr. Nye F. Morehouse, with whom Messrs. R.N. Van Doren, H.H. Field, and C.S. Jefferson were on the brief, for plaintiffs in error in Nos. 310 and 311.
Mr. Robert C. Alston, with whom Messrs. Blair Foster and Robert S. Parker were on the brief, for appellee in No. 87.
Mr. Robert M. Rieser, with whom Mr. Herman L. Ekern, Attorney General of Wisconsin, was on the brief, for defendant in error in Nos. 310 and 311.
Messrs. Andrew B. Dougherty, Attorney General of Michigan, and Fred L. Warner, Assistant Attorney General, filed a brief, as amici curiae by special leave of Court, on behalf of the State of Michigan.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.
These cases require a determination of the scope and effect of the federal Locomotive Boiler Inspection Act. February 17, 1911, c. 103, 36 Stat. 913, as amended March 4, 1915, c. 169, 38 Stat. 1192, and June 7, 1924, c. 355, 43 Stat. 659. The main question, which is the same in the three cases, is one of statutory construction. It is whether the Boiler Inspection Act...
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