Supreme Court of the United States November 21, 1927, 63 (Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Ellzey)

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Mr. Justice- Stone

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Respondent, a United States deputy marshal, was assigned to guard Merchant, a telegraph lineman employed by petitionér, from violence by strikers. He went with Merchant to repair a telegraph line and while returning with him on a motor car over petitioner’s railroad the car was derailed and respondent injured.