Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“ If couplers failed to couple automatically upon a straight track, it at least may be said that a jury would be werranted in finding that a lateral play so great as to prevent coupling was not needed, and that, in the absence of any explanation believed by them, the failure indicated that the railroad had not fully complied with the law. ”

“ Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co. v. United States, 220 U.S. 559, 571, 55 L. ed. 582, 586, 31 Sup. Ct. Rep. 612; Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co. v. Brown, 229 U.S. 317, 320, 321, 57 L. ed. 1204-1206, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 840, 3 N. C. C. A. 826; San Antonio & A. Pass R. Co. ”