Burch v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

This is an appeal from a personal injury judgment for $25,000 rendered after remittitur entered upon verdict for $43,-000 in favor of plaintiff, Frank Burch, and against defendant, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company, commonly known as the Big Four Railway Company.

It appears from the evidence that at the time plaintiff was injured hé was employed as a switch tender by the Indianapolis Union Railway Company in its yards at' Indianapolis, Indiana. While so employed’ at about 6:30 o ’clock 'in the evening of March 8, 1924, he was run over by a Cincinnati,'Indianapolis &…