Erie Railroad v. Szary

Citations

• 253 U.S. 86
• 40 S. Ct. 454
• 64 L. Ed. 794
• 1920 U.S. LEXIS 1448

Syllabus

<p>An employee of a railroad engaged in both interstate and intrastate commerce, whose duty it was to dry sand in stoves in a small structure near the tracks and supply it to the locomotives, whether operating in the one kind of commerce or the other, was injured while returning from an ash-pit whither he had gone to dump ashes taken by him from one of the stoves after sanding several locomotives bound to other States. Held, employed in interstate commerce within the meaning of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. P. 89. Erie R. R. Co. v. Collins, ante, 77, followed.</p>