Show LOWER COURT REVERSED safety appliance laws indorsed by court of appeals st louis two sweeping opinions noteworthy in that the decisions of the lower courts were reversed in full in each instance were handed down by the united states court of appeals here on monday sustaining the tion of the government against the railroads in the matter of safety ap aliance law of congress the cases decided were those of the government against the atchason Atch lson topeka santa fe railroad and of the government against the denver kio grande hallway company by these decisions the court of appeals abrogates the common law rules of ga care that have heretofore and behind which the railroad sought shelter and upholds in full the acts of congress which the opinions hold now totally supplant the common law rules |