Lone Star Steel Company v. Lois McGee

How courts have described this case

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• holding that company’s railway was a “common carrier” and not an in-plant rail system under Federal Employer’s Liability Act because it had “adopted the regular practice of transporting for others”
• noting that the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Board’s predecessor, did not assume jurisdiction over an entity’s railroad equipment but concluding that the entity was, in fact, a common carrier under FELA
• establishing a four-part test to aid in answering the question whether an entity is a common carrier
• enumerating “various considerations [that] are of prime importance in determining whether a particular entity is a common carrier”
• considering common carrier status under FELA and the SAA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).