Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. Polk

Citations

• 256 U.S. 332
• 41 S. Ct. 518
• 65 L. Ed. 958
• 1921 U.S. LEXIS 1606

Syllabus

<p>In a proceeding under a state workmen's compensation law to recover for the death of a railroad employee, findings that, when injured, he was employed as a member of a crew in charge of a draft of freight cars attached to an engine in a yard and containing both interstate and intrastate cars and freight, establish his employment in interstate commerce; a special relation to the intrastate • commerce which would have rendered his employment intrastate cannot be presumed but must be proven by the actor in the proceeding. Philadelphia & Reading Ry. Co. v. Di Donato, ante, 327. P. 333. 266 Pa. St. 335, reversed.</p>