Legal Opinion

Scarborough v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 15, 1943No. Appeal, 171PublishedCited by 17 opinions

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…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Shanks v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
  2. McLeod v. ThrelkeldSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  3. Overstreet v. North Shore Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
  4. Southern Pacific Co. v. Industrial Accident CommissionCalifornia Supreme Court · 1942
  5. Shima v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1943

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Griffith v. GardnerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1949
  2. Maxie v. Gulf, Mobile Ohio Railroad Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1949
  3. Holl v. Southern Pac. Co.District Court, N.D. California · 1947
  4. Ernhart v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1950
  5. Harris v. Missouri Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Kansas · 1944

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