Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1908 — SAFETY APPLIANCE APPEAL [ARTICLE]

SAFETY APPLIANCE APPEAL

Supreme Court to Say Whether Couplings Must Be Kept in Order. Washington, Dec. 1. —The question whether the safety appliance law requires railroad companies to maintain automatic couplings in good order as well as to equip their cars with them is involved in the case of E. M. Delk versus the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad company. The case originated in Tennessee, where the trial court granted damages to a railroad employe who was injured That verdict was reversed by the United States circuit court of appeals. The supreme court will review the case.