Stark v. Wilson

*460The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The action was one for compensation for the death of a street-car conductor. The dependents recovered, and the receivers of the railway company appeal.

The street railway is an interstate railway, operating in the contiguous cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, and the defendants assert the plaintiff should have invoked the federal employers’ liability act, instead of the state workmen’s compensation act.

By the terms of its charter, the nature of the railway company’s business was to operate a street railway for conveyance…