...shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped...necessity of men going between the ends of the cars." And by the amendment of March 2, 1903, it was further provided that the provisions and regulations...

...tender, or similar vehicle used in moving state traffic, not equipped with couplers Opinion of the Court. coupling automatically by impact, and which can be...necessity of men going between the ends of the cars." Section 4 of that act is now Section 8952 (3365-27^, Revised Statutes) of the General Code, and reads...

...be hauled or used on its line, any locomotive, car. tender, or similar vehicle used in moving state traffic, not equipped with couplers coupling automatically...can be uncoupled without the 'necessity of men going Opinion of the Court. between the ends of the cars." The next section authorizes the common carrier...

...Impact. — Under the Federal Safety Appliance Act, which, inter alia, provides that on its line any car in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, it is held that failure of such couplers to couple on impact raises an inference that the carrier has...

...shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped...necessity of men going between the ends of the cars." "Sec. 6. That any such common carrier using any locomotive engine, running any train, or hauling or...

...shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on Its line any car used In moving Interstate traffic not equipped...necessity of men going between the ends of the cars." [US Comp. St 1901, p. 3174.] "Sec. 6. That any such common carrier using any locomotive engine, running...

...interstate commerce by railroad to haul or permit to bo hauled or used on its line any car used iu moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers...necessity of men going between the ends of the cars." Section 4 of the act provides that it shall be unlawful under like circumstances for any railroad company...

...obviated by merely inserting a comma after the word "uncoupled" in that portion of the act which calls for "couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which...necessity of men going between the ends of the cars." The concluding phrase then literally applies to both the coupling and uncoupling. Punctuation is a minor,...

...latter should apply to the former. The coupler provision of the act makes it unlawful to use any car in interstate traffic "not equipped with couplers coupling...uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the cars." Clearly it prohibits the use of certain couplers. As stated in Johnson v. Southern Pacific Company,...

...531 [US Comp. St. 1901, p. 3174]) imposes upon the defendant an unqualified duty to equip its cars with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and...necessity of men going between the ends of the cars; and, if the defendant hauled over its lines of railroad any cars which could not be so operated, either...