Schendell v. C.R.I. P. Ry. Co.

1 Reported in 204 N.W. 552. Action under the Federal Employers Liability Act to recover for the death of Clarence Y. Hope, plaintiff's intestate, an employe of the defendant. There was a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial was denied. The defendant appeals from the judgment entered upon the verdict.

The decedent's death occurred in Iowa in a rear-end collision between a through passenger train and an engine and caboose upon which the deceased and other members of the crew were going home to dinner after hauling state and…