Saunders v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.

The Norfolk and Western Railway Company, defendant, appeals from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Madison County entered on the jury’s verdict in favor of Eugene L. Saunders in his action for damages brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U.S.C. §51 et seq.).

The railroad assigns as error on review the denial of its motion to dismiss on the grounds of forum non conveniens and certain alleged trial errors which we shall discuss separately together with the evidence necessary to decide the questions presented.

Saunders was employed as a maintenance-of-way employee and was…