Khan v. Southern Pacific Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment for damages and from two orders denying motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict in an action brought under the Federal Employers Liability Act to recover damages for partial blindness allegedly caused by an industrial accident claimed to be due to appellant’s negligence.

It is not disputed that respondent has lost the sight of his right eye due to a retinal detachment first observed about September 9, 1952. It was respondent’s theory that this retinal detachment was of traumatic origin or of traumatic-degenerative origin and that the trauma resulted…