Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Brittain

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit, under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U.S.C.A. §§ 51-59), was for damages for personal injuries. The claim was that defendant was a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce; that plaintiff was an employee of defendant in the Bridges and Buildings Department; and that when injured by defendant’s negligence, he was engaged in interstate transportation, or in work so close to it as to be practically a part of it, to wit, transporting timbers to repair the platform of a nonagency station. The defenses under the general issue pleaded in short-by…