Chapter 143. To amend an Act entitled “An Act relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eight
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CHAP. 143.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eight. April 5, 1910.[[H. R. 17263](/us/bill/61/hr/17263).][[Public, No. 117](/us/pl/61/117).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That an Act entitled “AnLiability of railroad common carriers to employees.Vol. 35, p. 66, amended.Vol. 34, p. 232.
Act relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended in section six so that said section shall read:" “Sec. 6. That no action shall be maintained under this Act unlessTime limit of actions. commenced within two years from the day the cause of action accrued. “Under this Act an action may be brought in a circuit court of theJurisdiction. United States, in the district of the residence of the defendant, or in which the cause of action arose, or in which the defendant shall be doing business at the time of commencing such action.
The jurisdictionConcurrent jurisdiction of State courts. of the courts of the United States under this Act shall be concurrent with that of the courts of the several States, and no case arising under this Act and brought in any state court of competent jurisdiction shall be removed to any court of the United States.” " Sec. 2. That said Act be further amended by adding the following section as section nine of said Act:" “Sec. 9. That any right of action given by this Act to a personSurvival of actions in case of death. suffering injury shall survive 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, but in such cases there shall be only one recovery for the same injury.
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