Shidloski v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad

Stanley Shidloski, administrator of the estate of Alexander Serwatka, deceased, obtained a judgment for $15,000 against the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, commonly known as the Nickel Plate Railroad, on account of the death of Serwatka which resulted from his being struck by a string of cars while he was employed by said railroad as a car repairer in its yards located at Madison, Illinois.

The action was brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. The existence of a well-established custom to warn employees working in and about cars in said yards of the movement or…