Tipton v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co.

GARRECHT, Circuit Judge.

Appellant filed in the superior court of the state of California for the county of Fresno a complaint alleging that defendant corporation was authorized to do business in the state of California, and was doing business as a common carrier by railroad of interstate commerce and that its tracks were maintained as a highway of interstate commerce; that he was employed by defendant as a switchman; that while assisting in “spotting” a car at a storehouse of defendant in the town of Riverbank in said state, he was injured because a defective cut-lever used in detaching the…