Clevinger v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

By this action, brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U. S. C! A., Sec. 51), the respondent seeks to' recover damages for personal injury received by him on June 29, 1931, while employed by the appellant as a section hand, at a point near Ritchey, Missouri, The work in which the respondent was engaged at the time was being performed on appellant’s main line of railway, operated between St. Louis and Oklahoma City, over which appellant daily operated between those points trains of cars in carrying on both interstate and intrastate commerce. Respondent recovered a verdict and…