Wellinger v. Terminal Railroad Assn. of St. Louis

Action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, Title 45, U.S.C.A., sec. 51 et seq. The jury returned a verdict for $15,000, and defendant appealed from the judgment rendered. Plaintiff (respondent), a mail handler in the employ of defendant (appellant), fell from a four-wheeled mail or baggage truck from which he had loaded pouches of mail into a mail car in an interstate train at Union Station in St. Louis.

Plaintiff alleged that, when he was in the act of getting off the mail truck, the side of the truck gave way throwing him to the ground and causing him to suffer permanent injuries.…