Woodard v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Fayette District Cottrt. — W. J. Springer, Judge. Action in the name of the administrator of the estate of Lester Boleyn, deceased, under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, for damages. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
*517proximate . of fair probablllties' *516— I. This is an action in the name of the administrator of the estate of Lester E. Boleyn, deceased, under *517the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, to recover damages on account of his death, which occurred while he was employed by appellant as a section hand, Boleyn was thrown, or tell, irom a hand car on which he was riding', receiving injuries from which he died a few hours later. At the time of the accident, he and Mike Yenney, appellant’s section foreman, were going from Brainerd, a station on appellant’s line of railway in Fayette County, to Elgin in the…
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