334 U.S. 854
Docket No. 775.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 21, 1948.
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1948-06-21
1 counsel of record
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
“Ellis v. Union P. R. Co., 329 U. S. 649 .”
quoted by 1 later decision, including Wilkerson v. McCarthy
Relies on Ellis v. Union Pacific Railroad · Myers v. Reading Co.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1948-06-21
Cited by 30 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2002 · most notably Wilkerson v. McCarthy (1949), Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
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¶1Walter M. Bastían and A. K. Shvpe for petitioner.
¶3The petition for writ of certio-rari is granted and the judgment of the Supreme Court of Arkansas is reversed. See Myers v. Reading Co., 331 U. S. 477 (1947) and Ellis v. Union Pacific R. Co., 329 U. S. 649 (1947).