Jensen v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE NIEMEYER

delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant, an interstate carrier, appeals from a judgment for $50,000 entered in an action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U. S. C. A. sec. 51 et seq.) to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, a switching foreman employed by defendant in its yard in South Chicago, Illinois while making up a train for Gary, Indiana.

In this work the switch engine and cars moved by it passed over a slab yard puzzle, or multiple, switch which served the slab yard in which outgoing trains…