Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Harrington

Citations

• 241 U.S. 177
• 36 S. Ct. 517
• 60 L. Ed. 941
• 1916 U.S. LEXIS 1791

Syllabus

<p>Unless the injured employee of an interstate and intrastate carrier is engaged in interstate commerce, at the time of the injury, the Federal Employers’ Liability Act does not apply; and it is immaterial whether such employee had previously been, or in the immediate future was to be, engaged therein.</p> <p>An employee of a carrier engaged in removing coal from storage tracks to coal chutes is not engaged in interstate commerce, even though the coal ha'd been previously brought from another State and was to be used by locomotives in interstate hauls. Del., Lack. & West R. R. v. Yurkonis, 238 U. S. 439,</p> <p>The Federal Employers’ Liability Act refers to interstate commerce in a practical sense; and the test is whether the employee at the time of the injury was engaged in interstate transportation, or'in work so closely related thereto as to be practically a part thereof. Shanks v. Del., Lack. & West. R. R., 239 U. S. 556.</p>