· 3/29/1937
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Scarlett
Citations
- 300 U.S. 471
- 57 S. Ct. 541
- 81 L. Ed. 748
- 1937 U.S. LEXIS 1157
How courts have described this case
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- holding that when the claim involved an allegedly negligently placed brace rod, a piece of equipment not listed in SAA, “[t]he law to be applied . . . is the common-law rule of negligence, and not the inflexible rule of the [SAA]”
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Judges: Sutherland
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