Morini v. Erie Railroad

The question is whether the deceased employee was engaged in interstate commerce at the time of his injury. The undisputed facts are that he was a mechanic who was regularly employed to make light running repairs in the roundhouse and he was injured while replacing a broken right driving spring of an engine, which was treated as a light running repair. The engine could operate without the repair but it was deemed advisable to undertake *823it that night after it was laid off at eleven-forty-five p. m. The fire in its boiler was not withdrawn. There was some delay in completing the replacement…