Charles T. Selser v. Pacific Motor Trucking Co., and Southern Pacific Transportation Company

How courts have described this case

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• applying federal law, holding stock ownership or lack thereof is not determinative
• “By its terms, section 55 voids all devices, and only those devices, whose actual purpose or intent is to enable a carrier to exempt itself from liability.”
• “By its terms, section 55 voids all devices, and only those devices, whose actual purpose or intent is to enable a carrier to exempt itself from liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).