TORTS - FEDERAL EMPLOYERS LIABILITY ACT - MISREPRESENTATION TO GAIN EMPLOYMENT

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P applied for a position as switchman with the defendant company. Defendant company had a rule that no one should be employed over the age of 45. Employees who had reached the age of 65 were pensioned but this limit was extended in some cases to 70. To gain employment, P, who was 49, represented that he was 38. He was accepted, and worked for 7 years when he was injured through defendant's negligence while engaged in interstate commerce. Held, his misrepresentation to gain employment did not bar recovery under the Federal Employers Liability Act, it not appearing that the misrepresentation contributed to the injury in any way. Borum v. Minneapolis, St. P. & S. S. M. Ry. (Minn. 1931) 238 N. W. 4.

Recommended Citation

TORTS - FEDERAL EMPLOYERS LIABILITY ACT - MISREPRESENTATION TO GAIN EMPLOYMENT, 30 Mich. L. Rev. 813 (1932).
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