Belch v. Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN under tbe Federal Employers’ Liability Act,- tried before Devin, J., and a jury, at December Term, 1917, of New Hanover.
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ActioN under tbe Federal Employers’ Liability Act,- tried before Devin, J., and a jury, at December Term, 1917, of New Hanover. The trial having been entered upon and the jury impaneled, it appeared from the averments in plaintiff's. complaint as amended and the admissions on the argument that in August, 1913-, plaintiff, an employee of the defendant, a railroad company engaged at the time as a common carrier of interstate commerce, received serious physical' injuries attributable to the negligence of defendant’s officers, agents, etc.; that soon thereafter and within two years of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
Tbe Federal Employers’ Liability Act (Fed. Stat. Anno., 1909 Supp., p. 584) was designed and intended to regulate suits for physical injuries or death of employees of railroads while engaged as common carriers of interstate commerce, wrongfully caused by the negligence of the officers, agents, or employees of such carriers, or by reason of"“negligence on their cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment”; and section 6 of said act provides, among other things, “That no action shall be maintained under this act unless commenced within two…
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