Southern Railway Company v. Stallings

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal by Southern Railway Company, defendant below, from a personal injury judgment in favor of Millard Stallings, plaintiff below, for $30,000 and from an order overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial. The action is brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq.

Plaintiff was injured on June 14, 1954, while working for the defendant as a boilermaker in its Norris Yards in Jefferson County. The case went to the jury only on count two as last amended. For answer to the complaint the defendant interposed a plea in short by consent.…