Herb v. Pitcairn

Appellee brought this suit in the city court of Granite City against appellants to recover damages for personal injuries received while employed by appellants as a switch-man. The accident occurred in the switching yards of the Staley Manufacturing Company at Decatur, Illinois. The complaint on which the case was tried alleged that appellee was employed by appellants as a switchman; that appellants, as receivers of the railway company, were operating as a common carrier; that at the time of the injury both appellee and appellants were engaged in interstate commerce and were subject to the…