Raymond E. Fisher v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, a Corporation

MERCER, District Judge.

Defendant prosecutes this appeal to review a judgment entered against it upon a verdict of the jury empaneled to try this action for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff in a collision between a truck driven by plaintiff and one of defendant’s trains. Errors relied upon for reversal, among others, relate to the failure of the trial court to grant defendant’s motions for a directed verdict and its motion to set aside the verdict, or, in the alternative, for a new trial.

The accident in question occurred on February 7, 1954. About noon, on that day,…