Tennessee Cent. Ry. Co. v. Pyle

The petitioner in this compensation case is the widow of Pearson Pyle, who was killed hy a train of the C. N. 0. & T. P. Railway as it ran through the yards of Tennessee Central Railway at Emory Gap nsed jointly hy these two Railroads, about 4 P. M., February 26th, 1938. Deceased was employed as yard foreman hy the Tennessee Central Railway Company and was in the line of duty when killed. The defense of Tennessee Central Railway is that it is a “ common carrier doing an interstate business” and that it was so engaged at the time when deceased was killed; that deceased was performing duties so…