Conway v. Southern Pac. Co.

This action was brought by appellant to recover damages for personal injury. It was based on the Employers’ Liability Act of Congress (U. S. Comp. St. §§ 8657-8665). The case below went off on a demurrer to the complaint. The plaintiff appeals.

In the complaint it in substance is alleged that the respondent was an interstate common carrier, and at the time of the injury and prior thereto was engaged in making repairs on its railroad track across Great Salt Lake, and used in interstate commerce, by rock fills and raising the track, and in connection therewith had a large number of men in its…