Thom v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

1 Reported in 252 N.W. 660. Action under the federal employers liability act to recover $35,315 for the death of Stanley Prybelek, a section laborer in the employ of the defendant. Plaintiff had a verdict for $7,965. Defendant appeals from the judgment entered after the denial of its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.

In the forenoon of October 31, 1931, a section crew of which deceased was a member was riding on a gasolene motor car proceeding southerly toward a place at which the noon hour was to be spent. When approximately 150 feet north of Johnson Parkway, in St. Paul, at…