ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY
v.
VICKERS

U.S. | 1887-05-27
122 U.S. 360 Supreme Court of the United States (1887) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 30 L. Ed. 1161 · 7 S. Ct. 1216 · SCDB 1886-285 · 1887 U.S. LEXIS 2114
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Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice Waite-

Mr. Chief Justice Waite-

delivered the opinión of the court. .

This judgment' is affirmed on the authority of Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad Co. v. Putnam, 118 U. S. 545; Nudd v. Burrows, 91 U. S. 426, 441; Indianapolis, &c., Railroad v. Horst, 93 U. S. 291, 299. A state constitution cannot, any more than a state statute, prohibit the judges of the courts of the United States from charging juries with regard to matters of fact.

Affirmed.

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    …. 291, 300); of that the court shall not express any opinion upon the facts (Vicksburg & Meridian R. Co. v. Putnam, 118 U. S. 545, 553), or charge the jury with regard to matters of fact (St. Louis, [*95] Iron Mountain & Southern Ry. Co. v. Vickers, 122 U. S. 360, 363); or shall not direct a verdict, where the evidence is such that a verdict the other way would be set aside (Barrett v. Virginian Railway Co., supra). In a trial by jury in a federal court, the judge is not a mere moderator, but is the governo…
  • Barrett v. Virginian Ry. Co., 250 U.S. 473 (U.S. 1919)
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