Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Moore

Citations

• 228 U.S. 433
• 33 S. Ct. 580
• 57 L. Ed. 907
• 1913 U.S. LEXIS 2382

Syllabus

<p>Where this court finds nothing giving rise to a clear conviction that error has resulted from the action of the court below it should not reverse the judgment. Chicago Junction By. Co. v. King, 222 U. S. 215.</p> <p>The contention of plaintiff in error that the court below construed.a statute adversely to his interest in certain respects will not avail if it appears that as a matter of fact he was accorded the benefit he claimed under such statute in those respects, and the rights of the other party were made dependent on other questions involved.</p> <p>Where the record shows that there was evidence that the cars on which the accident occurred and which were being transferred by a switching-engine were loaded with merchandise destined for a port to be there transshipped to destination in another State, and the court instructs the jury that the plaintiff can only recover under the Employers’ Liability Act of 1908 in case it finds that he was engaged in interstate commerce,' this court will not, in the absence of clear conviction of error, disturb the judgment based on the verdict.</p>