Court Opinion

ID: 9442529
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 18:50:51.447312+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:07.499765
License: Public Domain

FINNEGAN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
•The Government filed its complaint for alleged violations of the Safety Appliance Acts, 45 U.S.C.A., §§ 1-16, inclusive. Defendant answered denying the violations. The Government had the 'burden of proving its case. This it did not do. It offered no evidence. It made no offer of proof. The record is barren of any evidence to substantiate the charges of the complaint. Considering the case on the record before us, the judgment dismissing the C., B. & Q. R. R. should be affirmed.
I dissent from the majority opinion.