Supreme Court of the United States November 23, 1931, 52 (Southern Railway Co. v. Walters)

Mr. Justice Roberts

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This action was instituted in a state court and removed to the District Court for Eastern Missouri. Respondent, the minor plaintiff, averred in his declaration,- that as he was in the act of crossing defendant’s track on Bond Avenue, East St. Louis, he was struck by a train and seriously injured.