Coviello v. New York Central Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

The Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U. S. C. A., §§ 51, et seq.) does not speak of interstate commerce in the technical sense. While the earlier cases gave the enactment a much broader purview, the criterion of employment in such commerce now is whether the employe, at the time of the injury, was “engaged in interstate trans portation, or in work so closely related to it as to be practically a part of it?” Shanks v. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Co., 239 U. S. 556; 36 S. Ct. 188; 60 L. Ed. 436; Chicago and N. W. Railroad Co.…