Show WINS INS LONG I SUIT mum j RAILWAY Former Brakeman Johnson at Last Receives Check for 1 j Loss of Hand s 's HEARINGS IN MANY COURTS COURT Important Question Involved Involve Attracts Attention Atter tion of CornI Com Com- I merc Commission Republican Special Service Ogden Og cn April W. 21 w. w 0 O. Johno former fonner brakeman now u t i th Lb received recel a check for or for or personal Ier onal damages received recel In a an accident at Just about ahot I years year ago The surrender er or of th Lii I company marks the close of oC a n BU u wa was cn engaged the attention of th Ui Supreme court of oC the United States tates c of the Circuit Court o of or Appeals c or I It Ju Judge sc Mannar District court t and an of the district court at Elko EIJo an ano Carson ell city Nov e i Johnson John on might flight still be without hi his money had hatI It not been bee that after th 1111 Circuit court of oC appeals had decide decide- n against him the state Inter Common CommIl commission elon attracted b by the thc Important tant questions Involved c took tool the mattor mattel mat mat- tel tor before beCore the court ntH und and won vor the tho safety appliance act would woul hay have been void had hatI this suit been decide e tiny any other WR way History of or Cue i In Iii 1001 1101 Johnson aa fUI u ii brakeman was Wag performing his duty on Promontory Iro ion tOt tory Point one day when It became becara necessary lI to attach a n. dining car to f a freight train In attempting y Uio tho Ito connection with a king Icing bolt Johnson's Johnsons John John- sons son's left hand baud was caught mamle antI and so ba badly l Injured that It was am am- II lie brought suit against the th company for OOOO an and retained t Judge W. W L. L Maginnis S The rhe case was waa tried before Judge 4 Marshall larH of the federal Ce eral court at Sail Salt Involved Lake Three points were l Tim dining car was to have been een fast fast- t cited to a n freight car cat The one was vas vasS S equipped with a Jennie automatic r coupler the other with a n Miller l hool hook i. i also bo automatic but hut the two would not work together so gO the king kinK bolt was uBe used Marshall held hell that tho the cars being heIng be he- ing lug equipped with automatic couplers were In compliance with the safety act net passed by congress to tollio for the llio protection of or railroad At l St. St Louis where three Judges Judge l sustained Iu the decision of Judge Marshall Marshall Mar Mar- shall they the held that chat the cars call were Jilted with automatic couplers that th the engine of or the freight frel ht train and the dining car were not In lI use e for interstate Inter inter- state traffic I Communion ron Take Take- Up VII i rj lit Then hen the Interstate Commerce commission com coin- mission became interested and carried the case cage to tu the States Stale supreme court Solicitor General hUe and argued the case 1 LJ In III the tho Johnson learned I Ii u pit nt fi 11 lid with ii lila one uno nun Jil ins n- n J I. I d to earn corn a living J at odd Jobs job around ro town TU j supreme court l vor ca l the lUo ilo- ilo 1 1 cl lon ot of the circuit t court o of appeals l i Railroad companies all over the United l of States awaited the outcome anxiously as points were Involved In that were o of of oC great Importance in the relation In Interstate employer cn to commerce The Tite Judges were Inous Johnson was as given the privilege 1111 1 lego lege of instituting a new trial second In 1005 the thc case was for the time iliac taken to Judge e Marshall He he would find for the indicated tn that rather than thon go through defendant ant So the llio courts a again ain Judge Maginnis tool took at ot Elko El o tho the suit Bult to the court trial however howe r I. I Nov Nev Before Beron It came to lo the Southern South company pany succeeded succeed succeed- It U to tu the federal fed fetI- having ed el in eral oun oui t at ut Carson Caison Nev eV v. v There it wa was WU fought out |