Bevan v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Rd.

Because of the interstate aspects, it is conceded that this case is controlled by the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (Title 45, Sections 51 to 59, U. S. Code). Section 51 of such act accords a right of action to an employee against his employer when both are engaged in interstate commerce “for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other…