Dickerson v. Terminal Railroad Ass'n of St. Louis

EAGER, Presiding Judge.

This is a suit by respondent for damages for personal injuries sustained when a switch engine, owned and operated by appellant, ran into a truck in which he was riding with two co-employees of General Motors. A verdict was returned in plaintiff’s favor for $25,000 and defendant has appealed.

The place involved was the Chevrolet plant of General. Motors in St. Louis. The plant and yard were fenced and are not open to the public; all switching operations were conducted exclusively by defendant, which owned all the equipment but not the tracks. Plaintiff, whose usual…