SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. SANDERS


246 S.W.2d 65 (1952)

SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. SANDERS et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

February 9, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ewing, Laughlin & Watson, Memphis, for complainant.

Hughie Ragan and H. Carmack Murchison Jackson, for Sarah Sanders.

Milton P. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Roy H. Beeler, Atty. Gen.


GAILOR, Justice.

This appeal presents an attack on Chapter 70, of the Public Acts of 1949, which undertakes to legitimate natural children whose parents marry after their birth.

In the course of his employment by the Southern Railway, Booker T. Sanders, husband of Defendant Ann T. Sanders, was killed. His widow and children sought compensation under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., in the Federal Court at Memphis. Some of...

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