Lina Silvestri, Administratrix of the Estate of Dominico Silvestri, Deceased v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, a Corporation

This is an appeal from the judgment of the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in a case brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq. The judgment followed a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in a jury trial. The defendant attacks both the jury’s finding upon the existence of negligence and the causal connection between any possible negligence and the death of the plaintiff’s decedent. As usual, in these cases, the evidence is somewhat conflicting and inferences to be drawn from it are, likewise, not sun-clear. The jury resolved' the issues…