Claims of Christo v. New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad Company, employer and self-insurer, appeals from awards of compensation made by the Workmen’s Compensation Board of this State to four injured employees. The sole issue on appeal in each case is that of jurisdiction. The employer contends that the compensation board was without jurisdiction to make the awards on the ground that a part of the duties of each claimant was in the furtherance of interstate commerce, or in work so closely related thereto as to bring him within the purview of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (U. S. Code, tit. 45, § 51 et seq.).…