Gilvary v. Cuyahoga Valley Railway Co.

This is an action brought by petitioner to recover -for personal injuries sustained by him in April, 1929, while employed by respondent as a switchman at Cleveland, Ohio. Respondent is a common carrier by railroad wholly within that State engaged in intrastate and interstate commerce. And the Safety Appliance Acts make it unlawful for it to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact. In accordance with the Ohio workmen’s compensation act, 2 petitioner and respondent had theretofore notified the industrial commission that…