Thomas v. Pennsylvania Railroad

The question principally argued in this case is whether compensation is allowable for the accidental death of a railroad freight conductor under the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Maryland, rather than under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 H. S. Code Ann., secs. 51-59). Another question has arisen, in this case and another, from the offers by the claimants, on the appeals below, of oral testimony, notwithstanding the provision of the Acts of 1931, ch. 406 (Code, art. 101, sec. 56), that questions of fact should be tried on the record of the original proceedings before the State…