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ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. EDWARDS, 1906 — 203 U.S. 531 · caselaw · US
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ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. EDWARDS
203 U.S. 53151 L. Ed. 305·Supreme Court of the United States·1906
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ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. EDWARDS.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. EDWARDS.
No. 12.
Submitted December 14, 1905; Restored to docket December 18, 1906; Resubmitted April 16, 1906.
Decided December 17, 1906.
Decided on authority of Illinois Central Railroad v. McKendree, ante, p. 514.
Mr. J. M. Dickinson, Mr. Edmund F. Trabue and Mr. Bleweii Lee for plaintiff in error.
The Attorney General and The Solicitor General for the United States at the suggestion of the court, there being no brief filed for defendant in error.
This case involves- the same questions upon similar facts as No. 13, just decided. Counsel filed a written stipulation that it. shall be controlled and determined by the ruling made in that case. The judgment is reversed, and cause remanded to the state court for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
For abstracts of arguments see ante, pp. 520 et seq.
[MAJORITY — Mr. Justice McKenna]
Mr. Justice McKenna
concurs in the-result.-