Louisville & N. R. v. Ward
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. This was an action by John Ward against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for personal injuries. The jury found a verdict for plaintiff..
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The motion in arrest of judgment was properly overruled. Though inartistically drawn, the declaration, which is in trespass for a personal injury received by the plaintiff while employed as a switchman in the yard of the -defendant at East St. Louis, by reason of a hole in the track, in which his foot was caught, shows a cause of action, and, if the allegations are in any particular imperfect, the verdict cured the defect. The one objection made to the complaint is directed to the averment “that the defendant, by its servants having charge of keeping said track in repair…
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