Nickell v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Mr. Presiding Justice Culbertson

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of St. Clair county in favor of Ida Niekell, administrator (hereinafter called plaintiff), as against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, a corporation, appellant (hereinafter called defendant), in the sum of $35,000. The action was instituted by plaintiff to recover by reason of the death of plaintiff’s intestate, a 53-year-old employee of defendant Railroad, under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. The verdict of the jury was returned in the sum of $50,000. After…