Michele Dessi v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

In this Federal Employers’ Liability Act 1 case the appellant Dessi, plaintiff below, asks us to reverse a judgment entered for the defendant, notwithstanding a jury verdict for the plaintiff on his personal injury claim. The district court reasoned that the evidence offered no rational basis for a conclusion that the plaintiff’s injury, in the language of the statute, “result[ed] in whole or in part” from the railroad’s negligence. We must now decide whether there was a jury question on the issue of causation.

Plaintiff, a sixty-three year old mechanic, was rendered…