Mickel v. Thompson

Action for damages for personal injuries. The cause was tried to a jury and resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff for $60,000. Motion for new trial was duly filed. On the hearing of the motion, a remittitur of $25,000 was made; the motion was overruled, and defendant appealed.

Plaintiff was a brakeman and had been employed by the Missouri Pacific for about seventeen years. He was injured while at work at Russellville, Arkansas, about 6:30 A.M., November 21, 1938. The applicable Arkansas law was pleaded. It is alleged "that on or about the said 21st day of November, 1938,…