Claim of Cullen v. Erie Railroad

The Industrial Commission has awarded death benefits to the widow of Charles Cullen, who met his death while an employee of the Erie Railroad Company, working in its yards at Jamestown, N. Y. A finding was made that “ the claimant was not engaged in interstate commerce, nor in any work so closely identified thereto as to be a part thereof.” It has been said that “ The question whether an employee is or is not engaged in interstate commerce involves a consideration of acts which he is performing at the time and perhaps of surrounding conditions and the ultimate conclusion that he was or was…