Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Metzler

Action by appellee against appellant to recover damages resulting from personal injuries sustained by appellee while employed in appellant’s shops at Garrett, Indiana.

Appellee, a boiler washer, at the time of his injury, was assisting in washing boilers of locomotives and had been so employed for about three weeks. The locomotive upon which appellee was working at the time of his injury was being regularly used by appellant in interstate commerce and the work being done was to prepare it for a trip in which it was assigned to an interstate train. The action was, therefore, under the Federal…