Sauter
Columbia & P. S. R. v. Sauter
Opinion
lead Opinion
Wolverton, J.
(after stating the facts as above). It is first urged in behalf of the railroad company that there is to be found in the record no sufficient evidence to support plaintiff’s allegations that the defendant negligently and carelessly failed to make provision by props or supports of any kind for holding up and sustaining the broken frame of the bridge when the logs and -timber should be removed. It was a material factor in plaintiff’s case that this allegation should be established by competent proof. Without noticing the evidence particularly, it is sufficient, as this case must be reversed upon another ground, to say that we have examined the testimony and are persuaded that the allegation appears to be amply supported by evidence sufficient to carry the case to the jury.
[1] The next contention is that, in prosecuting the work of erecting the temporary structure for use by both railroad companies in passing their engines and trains over Cedar river, the defendant was not engaged in interstate commerce, and hence that the. action could not *607 be maintained upon the theory on which it was instituted, it having been instituted under the federal Employers’ Liability Act. It was…