O'DONNELL, ADMINISTRATRIX,

v.

ELGIN, JOLIET & EASTERN RAILWAY CO.

Citator

Cited By

• O'Donnell v. Elgin, 338 U.S. 384 (U.S. 1949)
  …of the Act. The cases go no further than to hold that from the breaking of a coupler the jury may infer negligence.” As this view of the Safety Appliance Act appears to conflict with the rule laid down in other jurisdictions,1 we granted certiorari. 337 U. S. 929. A close and literal reading of the Safety Appliance Act, 45 U. S. C. § 2,2 suggests that two functions only are required of couplers: that they couple automatically by impact and that they uncouple without requiring men to go between the ends of…
• Parker v. Cnty. OF LOS Angeles, 338 U.S. 327 (U.S. 1949)
  …ught the case here because, on the showing then before us, serious questions seemed raised as to the scope of a State’s power to safeguard its security with due regard for the liberty guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. 337 U. S. 929. In view, however, of the circumstances that became manifest after the cases came to argument, we are precluded from reaching these constitutional issues on their merits. To begin with, the California decision under review does not tell us unambiguo…
• Cole v. Arkansas, 338 U.S. 345 (U.S. 1949)
  …firmed in an opinion sustaining the convictions under the section of the statute on which the prosecution was based. 214 Ark. 387, 216 S. W. 2d 402. Doubts as to whether the mandate in our earlier decision had been obeyed led us to grant certiorari. 337 U. S. 929. It appears on the surface, at least, that the Supreme Court of Arkansas has attempted to comply with our mandate and has now placed its affirmance upon the same section of the statute as that upon which the trial court [*348] submitted the case to…