Pierson v. Davis

In her complaint the plaintiff claimed to have been injured on February 8, 1919, while employed by the Director-General of Railroads as a railroad operator at Cushman, Montana, on the line of the Great Northern Railway Company. She and her employer were then engaged in interstate commerce.

The action was commenced January 31, 1921. Plaintiff named as defendants “Director-General of Railroads and Great Northern Railway Company, a corporation.” Without obtaining from the court permission so to do, the plaintiff, on May 9, 1922, filed an amended complaint wherein she named as defendants “James C.…