Grand Trunk Western R. Co. v. Boylen

ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

The action was against appellant under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U.S.C.A. §§ 51-59) to recover damages for injuries sustained by Boylen while he was engaged in an interstate switching movement for appellant, his employer. Judgment went against the employer, which appeals.

Boylen’s injury occurred on appellant’s main switch track which runs northerly and southerly into and through the yard of the Berkey & Gay furniture factory at Grand Rapids, Mich., extending about three-fourths of a mile southerly thereof to serve also other factories. The track enters…