Rush v. Southern Railway Co.

The plaintiff alleged that he was an employee working for the defendant railway company in the State of South Carolina at the time of his injury. There is no allegation to' the effect that he was engaged in interstate commerce, nor do the facts in the petition bring the case within the application of the Federal employer’s liability act. His general employment'was that of a carpenter, but -he was required also to do other work at the direction of his foreman, and his foreman directed him to go into a box-car and bring from the car a bag of cement, to be used in the general work in which the…