Owens v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Stabler.

This action was brought under the Federal Employer’s Inability Act (45 USCA §§ 51-59 [U. S. Comp. St. §§ 8657-8665]) by the /administratrix of the estate of M. H. Owens, for the benefit of his widow and her six children.

The complaint alleged that on the 16th day of March, 1923, while M. H. Owens, who was employed by defendant as a car inspector in its yard at Florence, South Carolina, was engaged in work of the defendant that was part of and connected with interstate commerce, he was run over and killed by one of defendant’s trains,…