Searfoss v. Lehigh Valley R. Co.

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 USCA § 51 et seq.) to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff when returning from work at the end of the day on a rail- - road motorcar provided by the defendant for that purpose and operated by an employee of the defendant upon defendant’s railroad. The plaintiff was a track repairman in the employ of the defendant. On August 1, 1933, the motorcar upon which he was riding with some twenty other such employees ran into a caboose at the end of a freight train of the defendant which had…