Rice v. Baltimore & O. R. Co.

KILLITS, District Judge.

Rice, a fireman for the defendant railroad company, was actionably injured while in the company’s service in West Virginia. Plaintiff was a citizen and resident of West Virginia, and the defendant company was a Maryland corporation, and, consequently, an “inhabitant” of Maryland for general jurisdictional purposes; USCA, title 28, § 112, Annotations, page 50. Jurisdiction was invoked in the Northern District of Ohio, *389whore defendant does business, on the allegation that the train movement involved was in interstate commerce. It was alleged that plaintiff was injured as…