Legal Opinion
Reed v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 11, 1956No. 621PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Minton
The question we have for decision here is whether petitioner, a clerical employee of respondent railroad, is within the coverage of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. § 1, 35 Stat. 65, as amended, 53 Stat. 1404, 45 U. S. C. § 51. Petitioner is employed entirely in respondent’s office building in Philadelphia. Her duties consist of filing original tracings of all of respondent’s engines, cars, parts, tracks, bridges, and other structures, from which blueprints of those items are made. There are some 325,000 tracings on file in the office in which petitioner works. Whenever an order for…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Shanks v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Overstreet v. North Shore Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Lillie v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Shelton v. ThomsonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1945
- Ericksen v. Southern Pacific Co.California Supreme Court · 1952
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3Cited by42 opinions
- Rogers v. Missouri Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- United States v. Nicholas A. StironeCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1959
- James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. John D. RainesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1956
- Sean Greene v. Long Island Railroad Company, Barbara A. Arias, Thelma Schulman, Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2002
- Elisabeth Byrne, Administratrix of the Estate of Joe G. Irby, Deceased v. Pennsylvania Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1959
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