Edwards v. Pacific Fruit Express Co.

How courts have described this case

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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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).