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Title 45 — Railroads

Chapter 2 — Liability for Injuries to Employees

§ 52. Carriers in Territories or other possessions of United States

Statutory text

Every common carrier by railroad in the Territories, the District of Columbia, the Panama Canal Zone, or other possessions of the United States shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in any of said jurisdictions, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee; and, if none, then of such employee’s parents; and, if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon such employee, for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 60–149 § 2 · 35 Stat. 65

    Enacted · 45 U.S.C. § 52

    (Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, § 2, 35 Stat. 65.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, § 2, 35 Stat. 65.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That every common carrier by railroad in the Territories, Damages for injuries, etc., in Territories, etc. the District of Columbia, the Panama Canal Zone, or other possessions of the United States shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in any of said jurisdictions, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee; and, if none, then of such employee’s parents; and, if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon such employee, for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees Negligence of officers, etc. of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, § 2, 35 Stat. 65.)

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