Pallocco v. . Lehigh Valley R.R. Co.

The plaintiff sues under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act to recover damages for injuries resulting in death.

Joseph Pallocco was employéd as a track laborer at the Manchester yard of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, an interstate carrier. On April 29, 1917, he was working at the west end of the yard, pulling up old ties and putting in new ones. At noon he- had an hour to himself for lunch, which it was his habit to take at home. He left the scene of his work with his son, and walked along one of the tracks from the west end of the yard to its starting point at the east, a distance, it…