Taylor v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

* NOTE: Opinion filed at October Term, 1932, April 20, 1933; motion for rehearing filed; motion overruled June 24, 1933; motion to transfer to Court en Banc filed; motion overruled at May Term, June 24, 1933. This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Taylor, from an order of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis sustaining the defendant's motion for new trial. The case comes to the writer on reassignment. We shall refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendant respectively.

The suit was brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act to recover for personal injuries sustained by the…