Clyde H. Duncan v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, a Corporation

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

The defendant appeals from a jury verdict of $94,000 awarded to its employee in an action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C. § 51 et seq.

Duncan, a locomotive engineer, employed by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (Frisco), sustained injuries when the train he was operating on a run from Memphis, Tennessee, to St. Louis, Missouri, collided with a Missouri Pacific train in Memphis on February 10, 1968. Duncan was proceeding in a northerly direction through Frisco’s Memphis railroad yards on the mainline which would take the train to St. Louis.…