Gill v. Baltimore Ohio Railroad Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment upon a verdict for $22,333.33 in an action respondent, as administratrix, brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act for damages for the death of Glenn C. Gill, a switch foreman, who was killed while at work for appellant in its years in or near East St. Louis, Illinois.

On the night of December 28, 1920, the switching crew of which Gill was in charge was at work in the yards, placing loaded cars on track fourteen and empty cars on track fifteen, doors opposite each other, in order that car-load lots might be placed in the empty cars by transfer from…