...other provisions of the act is Section 2, which provides : "It shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul, or permit to be hauled or used on its line, any locomotive, car. tender, or similar vehicle used in moving state traffic, not equipped with couplers...

...unlawful for any common carrier engaged in moving traffic by railroad between points within this state "to haul, or permit to be hauled, or used on its line, any locomotive, car, tender, or similar vehicle used in moving state traffic, not equipped with couplers...

...purpose." "Sec. 2. That on and after the 1st day of January, 1898, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on...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...

...January 1, 1898, It shall be unlawful for any common carrier, engaged In Interstate commerce by railroad, to haul or permit to be hauled or used on Its line...necessity of men going between the ends of the cars." Code Iowa 1897, §§ 2097. 2080, declares that after the same date no corporation operating a railroad...

...forward end of a locomotive and its tender. The act provides : "It shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul, or permit to be hauled or used on...coupling automatically by impact, and which can be coupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars." In Johnson v. Southern Pacific...

...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...

...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,...

...traffic, and which cars are not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which cars can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of Ae cars. It is contended with much earnestness that as this is a penal statute the statute must be...

...531, c. 196, which made it unlawful for any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce by railroad "to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line...equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact," etc. The petition, if liberally construed, charged that defendant was a common carrier engaged in interstate...

...statute. Section 2 makes it unlawful for any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce by railroad "to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate trafile not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by Impact, and which can be uncoupled without...