PHILA., B. & W.R.R. CO. v. SMITH

No. 472.

250 U.S. 101 (1919)

PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE & WASHINGTON RAILROAD COMPANY v. SMITH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 19, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederic D. McKenney, with whom Mr. John Spalding Flannery was on the briefs, for petitioner.

Mr. T. Alan Goldsborough for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

Respondent brought his action in a state court of Maryland under the provisions of the Federal Employers' Liability Act of April 22, 1908, as amended April 5, 1910 (c. 149, 35 Stat. 65; c. 143, 36 Stat. 291), to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him upon one of petitioner's lines of railroad in the State of Maryland over which petitioner was engaged in transporting interstate as well as intrastate...

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