Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Industrial Commission

The learned circuit judge concluded that at the time of the injury Thomas A. Bloxham was employed in interstate commerce, and that, consequently, the defendant commission had no jurisdiction to enter an award.

There is no dispute as to the facts. Plaintiff operates a railway system extending from the city of Superior, Wisconsin, through Minnesota to the Pacific coast. At the city of Superior it maintains, as an integral part of its system, an ore dock for the transfer, from its railway cars to vessels, of ore which is in transit from Minnesota mines, via the city of Superior, to other ports on…