INTERNATIONAL-GREAT NORTHERN R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 17575.

268 F.2d 409 (1959)

INTERNATIONAL-GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 30, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bond Davis, San Antonio, Tex., Boyle, Wheeler, Gresham, Davis & Gregory, San Antonio, Tex., of counsel, for appellant.

John E. Banks, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Henry L. Hilzinger, Atty., Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., Howard C. Walker, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Russell B. Wine, U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for appellee.

Before RIVES, CAMERON and JONES, Circuit Judges.


JONES, Circuit Judge.

The United States brought a suit against the appellant railroad for penalties under the Safety Appliance Acts, 45 U.S.C.A. §§ 1-16. A judgment was recovered for the United States and the railroad has appealed.

The twelve railway cars here involved were in the railroad's San Fernando Yard at San Antonio, Texas, and there its inspectors found these cars to have defective safety appliances. Bad Order tags, specifying the defects...

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