Scarborough v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Baldrige, J.,
Ernest E. Scarborough, claimant in a workmen’s compensation case, on April 21, 1941, suffered the loss of the vision of his right eye due to some foreign matter getting into it when he was working on a light fixture in the platform roof of the westbound side of defendant’s Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania station.
As there is no dispute of facts the question presented before us is one entirely of law as to whether the claimant was engaged in interstate or intrastate commerce: Mason v. Reading Co., 129 Pa. Superior Ct. 289, 291, 195 A. 754. Even if the facts were in dispute the…
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