Parsons v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1963-11-12

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Per Curiam. The question presented by this case is whether a federal district judge in an action brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act is divested of all discretion to deny a § 1404 (a) transfer motion, 1 when a suit upon the same cause of action, earlier brought in a state court in the same city, was dismi…

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