Southern Railway Co. v. Hogue

Hall, Judge.

This court reviewed a ease governed by the Federal Employers’ Liability Act in Southern R. Co. v. Hogue, 116 Ga. App. 194 (156 SE2d 412). Congress has seen fit to confer concurrent jurisdiction on State courts in such cases involving a federally created right. The problem for a State court is in trying to determine just what is the Federal law. In many instances, as was true in this case, there is no authoritative holding by the United States Supreme Court. Instead there is a myriad of conflicting decisions by “such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and…