Head v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

Eldridge, Judge.

This is a discretionary appeal from the grant of new trial to CSX Transportation, Inc., a Virginia corporation in the interstate railroad business, from a jury verdict against it in a Federal Employers’ Liability Act case. The grant of the new trial was on the special grounds of conflict of interest between plaintiff’s counsel and an affiliated cor poration to CSXT; the basis of the alleged conflict in interest was that one of the counsel for the plaintiff had a partner who had represented CSX Intermodal, Inc., a Delaware corporation in the trucking business, in another…