Denver & Salt Lake Railway Co. v. Bedard

Plaintiee in error is hereinafter referred to as the company and defendant in error as plaintiff.

Plaintiff sued the company for $50,000 damages which he alleged he sustained in a collision between a railway motor car on which, as the company’s section foreman, he was riding, and the company’s work train. The action was brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. A jury awarded plaintiff over $17,000, and to review the judgment thereupon entered the company prosecutes this writ. Of the 24 assignments we confine ourselves to the first, which is that the court erred in overruling the…