Onley v. Lehigh Valley R.

(after stating the facts as above). Bearing in mind that the plaintiff has the burden of showing that he was engaged in] interstate commerce when injured, we find him doing work which itself sheds no light whatever upon the question to be decided. Testing a fire hose on an engine might be employment either in interstate commerce or intrastate commerce, depending upon whether it was so related definitely to one or the other that it formed a part of it. Since the Immediate work he was doing is colorless, we must look for its interstate character, either in what he had previously done or what he…