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In the United States Circuit Court of

Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad "

Company, Plaintiff in error,

United States of America,

Defendant in error.

No..

ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON.

BRIEF FOR DEFENDANT IN ERROR.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE.

(Parties will be referred to herein as in plaintiff in

error's brief; i. e., the plaintiff in error as defendant

and the defendant in error as plaintiff.)

This proceeding, begun in the District Court of

the United States for the ICastern District of Wash-

ington, Northern Division, in which the United

States of America was plaintiff and the Spokane &

Inland Empire Railroad Company defendant, was

instituted for violation of the act of Congress known

as the safety-appliance act, approved March 2, 1893

(27 Stat. L., 531), as amended by an act approved

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