Hines v. Pennsylvania Railroad

This is an appeal from the city court of East St. Louis to reverse a judgment for $20,000 in favor of appellee in an action brought by her under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, Cahill’s St. ch. 114, Ü 321 et seq., for damages on account of the death of appellee’s husband, Joseph G. Hines, while alleged to have been on duty as an employee of appellant. The declaration alleges that while appellee’s intestate was working for appellant, engaged in interstate commerce, the latter, through its servants, “without any knowledge or warning to the plaintiff’s intestate . . . carelessly,…