Legal Opinion
Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Denson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided June 16, 2000No. 1981364 and 1981365PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Norfolk Southern Railway Company ("Norfolk Southern") appeals from judgments entered on jury verdicts in two separate actions awarding James A. Martin and Vernon L. Denson $575,000 and $225,000, respectively. We reverse and remand.
Virtually all the facts out of which these actions arose are undisputed. At approximately 2:55 p.m. on March 24, 1995, Martin and Denson, as engineer and conductor, respectively, were operating Norfolk Southern's locomotive number 8741. Martin and Denson had been employed by Norfolk Southern for 27 years and 30 years, respectively. Number 8741 was the lead…
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2Cases cited13 opinions
- Napier v. Atlantic Coast Line RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
- State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. OwenSupreme Court of Alabama · 1999
- Mitchell v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas RailroadTexas Supreme Court · 1990
- O'Bannon Ex Rel. O'Bannon v. Union Pacific RailroadDistrict Court, W.D. Missouri · 1997
- Law v. General Motors Corp.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1997
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3Cited by10 opinions
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- Whaley v. CSX Transportation, Inc.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 2005
- Bonham v. Regions Mortgage, Inc.District Court, M.D. Alabama · 2001
- Union Pacific Railroad v. Motive Equipment, Inc.Court of Appeals of Wisconsin · 2006
- Monheim v. Union RailroadDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 2011
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