Webb v. Illinois Central Railroad

This is an action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 1 in which certiorari was granted to consider whether the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in reversing a judgment for damages awarded to the petitioner in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. 2 The ground for the reversal was that the evidence was insufficient to allow a jury determination of the respondent’s alleged negligence, so that respondent’s motion for a directed verdict should have been granted. 3

The petitioner, working as a brakeman on July 12, 1952, injured his kneecap in a fall on a…