Stack v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• tactic used by railroads to discourage injured employees from engaging in litigation interferes with natural law rights of each employee as a human being
• tactic used by railroads to discourage injured employees from engaging in litigation interferes with natural law rights of each employee as a human being
• “ ‘the crew’s testimony will be affected because they will be reluctant to testify candidly when their own pocketbooks are in jeopardy’ ”
• \ 'the crew's testimony will be affected because they will be reluctant to testify candidly when their own pocketbooks are in jeopardy' \
• a broad interpretation of “device” is “supported both by the purpose of the act and by case authority”
• a broad interpretation of “device” is “supported both by the purpose of the act and by case authority”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).