Murnan v. Wabash Railway Co.

This action is brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act to recover $50,000 damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff on February 28, 1926, while in the defendant’s employ at the defendant’s Oakwood yard at Detroit, Michigan, as the result of being thrown from the top of a caboose which collided with a locomotive. The defendant is an Indiana corporation. It maintains an office in this State for the conduct of its financial business and also for the purpose of soliciting freight and passenger business, and is to that extent doing business in this State.…