Coil v. Payne

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

L. M. Coil recovered a judgment under the federal employers’ liability act against the government agent in control of railroads, on account of injuries received by him while working as *637a track laborer repairing the roadbed of the Salina Northern railroad, and the defendant appeals.

1. One of the appellant’s contentions is that the plaintiff was not engaged in interstate commerce at the time of his injury, in which case the federal act would not apply. The Salina Northern company owns a railroad lying wholly in the state of Kansas, but used for…