Standard Surety & Casualty Co. of New York v. Sloan

A number of defenses are presented to the claim for compensation in this case, in which an award for permanent partial disability was made below. It is conceded that Sloan was an employee of Super Service Motor Freight Company and was injured in the course of his employment as the result of a collision in Fairfax, Virginia, between the truck he was driving for the appellant Company and an automobile.

However, it is said for appellants, inter alias, (1) that the employer Company was engaged in interstate commerce; that the petitioner was driving its truck interstate from Nashville to New York…