Behrens v. Illinois Cent. R.’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““I consider that the usual and ordinary employment of the decedent in interstate commerce, mingled though it may be with employment in commerce which is wholly intrastate, fixes his status and fixes the status of the railroad, and the mere fact that the accident occurred while he was engaged in work on an intrastate train, rather than a few minutes earlier or later, when he might have been engaged on an interstate train, is immaterial. If he was engaged in two occupations that are so blended as to be inseparable, and where the employé himself has no control over his own actions, and cannot-elect as to his employment, the court should not attempt to separate and distinguish between them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lamphere v. Oregon R. & Nav. Co.