Goodwin v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

This is an action for damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff had a verdict for $30,780. A remittitur of $15,000 was ordered and made, and a new judgment entered for $15,780. Defendant has appealed from that judgment.

Plaintiff claimed to have been injured by getting coal in his eyes, resulting in the loss of his left eye and the impairment of his right eye, while working for defendant as a section hand at Marshall in the fall (October or November) of 1924. The only evidence in the record as to how his injury occurred was plaintiff's own testimony. He said that frequently when freight trains…