Legal Opinion
Gary C. Lancaster v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 18, 1985No. 84-2768PublishedCited by 235 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal by the Norfolk and Western from a judgment for $850,000 in a suit under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U.S.C. §§ 51-60) by a former employee of the railroad, Gary Lancaster, presents issues of labor and tort law in a bizarre factual setting.
The jury could have found the following facts in favor of Lancaster. In 1975 he was a 30-year-old mechanic working in the railroad’s locomotive shop in Decatur, Illinois. Lachrone, a short-tempered foreman in the shop who had once been disciplined for roughing up a worker, became angry at Lancaster and several…
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