Byrd v. New York Central System

This is an action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S. Code, § 51 et seq.

The stipulated facts disclose that plaintiff was engaged by the defendant at the time of the injury complained of as a freight trucker, in interstate commerce, trucking flour from Pier 5, Weehawken, New Jersey, to the deck of the barge "Nyando." The accident occurred on April 14, 1948. A gangway, some fifteen feet in length and four and a half feet in width, projected from the side of the pier to the deck of the barge which lay in the navigable waters of the Hudson River. The gangway, due to the low tide…