| Litigants: | Davis v. Alexander |
| Arguedate: | October 12 |
| Argueyear: | 1925 |
| Decidedate: | November 16 |
| Decideyear: | 1925 |
| Fullname: | Davis v. Alexander |
| Usvol: | 269 |
| Uspage: | 114 |
| Parallelcitations: | 46 S. Ct. 34; 70 L. Ed. 186; 1925 U.S. LEXIS 781 |
| Prior: | 93 Okla. 159, 220 P. 358 (1923); cert. granted, . |
| Majority: | Brandeis |
| Joinmajority: | unanimous |
Davis v Alexander, 269 U.S. 114 (1925), is a US corporate law case, concerning the duties of parent corporations for actions of subsidiaries.[1]
Cattle were negligently injured while being transported from New Mexico to Oklahoma City.
The Supreme Court held the federal government was liable for torts of a railroad subsidiary.
Justice Brandeis, writing for a unanimous court, said the following: