Foreman Trust & Savings Bank v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Co.

In an action brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, Barnes Federal Code, § 8069 [Cahill’s St. ch. 114, fifí 321-329], and on trial by a jury, the plaintiff administrator had a verdict for $18,000, on which the court, overruling motions for a new trial and in arrest, entered judgment.

At the close of plaintiff’s evidence and again at the close of all the evidence, there were requests by the defendant for an instructed verdict in its favor, which motions were denied, and it is argued here that the jury should have been so instructed and that the plaintiff cannot recover because its…