AFFOLDER

v.

NEW YORK, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS RAILROAD CO.

Citator

Cited By

• Swift & Co. Packers v. Compania Colombiana del Caribe, 339 U.S. 684 (U.S. 1950)
  …an order of the District Court for the Canal Zone vacating a foreign attachment of a vessel made in a libel in personam. We granted certiorari because important questions relating to the scope of admiralty jurisdiction and its exercise are in issue. 338 U. S. 813. On March 7, 1948, the libel was filed against Compania Transmaritima Colombiana, S. A., a Colombian corporation, by Swift & Company Packers, a Nevada corporation, certain Cuban corporations and individuals, and a Colombian citizen. They brought th…
• Bryan v. United States, 338 U.S. 552 (U.S. 1950)
  …eral Rules of Criminal Procedure,” alleging that a judgment of acquittal should have been entered. This motion was denied. We granted certiorari to examine the power of the Court of Appeals to grant a new trial under the circumstances of this case. 338 U. S. 813. The extent of the power of federal appellate courts to enter judgment when reversing and remanding cases arising in the lower federal courts has been defined by-statutes from the inception of our system of courts. By the Judiciary Act of September…
• Affolder v. New York, 339 U.S. 96 (U.S. 1950)
  …e of the injury. The jury returned a verdict for $95,000 which, upon remittitur, was reduced to $80,000. A judgment in this amount was entered. 79 F. Supp. 365 (1948). On appeal the judgment was reversed. 174 F. 2d 486 (1949). We granted certiorari. 338 U. S. 813 (1949). The Court of Appeals determined the issue of proximate cause favorably to petitioner, and respondent admits that the “problem of causal connection vel non in the Affolder case is legally identical with the same problem in the Carter case. […