Supreme Court· 4/8/1968

Edwards v. Pacific Fruit Express Co.

Citations

390 U.S. 538
88 S. Ct. 1239
20 L. Ed. 2d 112
1968 U.S. LEXIS 3007
33 Cal. Comp. Cases 848

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recognizing that § 51 applies only to \a railroad company acting as a common carrier\
holding that the FELA does not cover employees of a company that maintained, leased, and serviced refrigerated railroad cars for the shipment of perishable items even though those services are “intimately associated” with the business of a railway company
explaining that FELA 13 applies to common carriers by railroad who are engaging in interstate commerce
characterizing the list of businesses found in the RLA definition of “carriers” (express companies, sleeping-car companies, carriers by railroad) to encompass “activities and facilities intimately associated with the business of common carrier by railroad”
refrigerator car companies not common carriers

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Judges: Black

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