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TEXAS & P. RY. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 14287.

189 F.2d 749 (1951)

TEXAS & P. RY. CO. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

June 13, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otto Atchley, Texarkana, Tex. (Atchley & Vance, Texarkana, Tex., on the brief), for appellant.

Leo Meltzer, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (James M. McInerney, Asst. Atty. Gen., R. S. Wilson, U. S. Atty., Charles A. Beasley, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Fort Smith, Ark., and James O. Tolbert, Attorney, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and RIDDICK, Circuit Judges.

RIDDICK, Circuit Judge.

The Texas and Pacific Railway Company appeals from a judgment in a civil action brought by the United States under the Safety Appliance Acts, 45 U.S.C.A. §§ 1-16.

So far as material on this appeal the complaint charged the Texas and Pacific with five separate violations of the Acts, committed in hauling five admittedly defective freight cars between two points in the joint freight...

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