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Southern Pacific Co. v. Industrial Acc. Comm’n, 251 U.S. 259 (1920)
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Southern Pacific Co. v. Industrial Acc. Comm’n, 251 U.S. 259 (1920)
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Southern Pacific Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission of California No. 118 Submitted December 18, 1919 Decided January 5, 1920 251 U.S. 259
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Syllabus
Certiorari is the proper means of reviewing a judgment of a state court affirming an award against a railroad company under a workmen’s compensation law where the federal question upon which the applicability, as distinct from the validity, of that law depends is whether the injured employee was engaged in interstate commerce. P. 262.
A lineman engaged in the necessary work of wiping the insulators supporting a main wire, in use at the time as a conductor of electricity which, flowing from it through a transformer, and thence along the trolley-wires of a railroad, moved cars in interstate and intrastate commerce, held employed in interstate commerce within the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. Id.
178 Cal. 20 reversed.
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U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Southern Pacific Co. v. Industrial Acc. Comm’n, 251 U.S. 259 (1920) in 251 U.S. 259 251 U.S. 262. Original Sources, accessed August 30, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=97DVHGMKJQM8TIU.
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U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Southern Pacific Co. v. Industrial Acc. Comm’n, 251 U.S. 259 (1920), in 251 U.S. 259, page 251 U.S. 262. Original Sources. 30 Aug. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=97DVHGMKJQM8TIU.
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U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Southern Pacific Co. v. Industrial Acc. Comm’n, 251 U.S. 259 (1920). cited in 1920, 251 U.S. 259, pp.251 U.S. 262. Original Sources, retrieved 30 August 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=97DVHGMKJQM8TIU.
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