Willis v. Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

EAGER, Justice.

Plaintiff, a passenger conductor on a Wabash train running between St. Louis and Decatur, Illinois, was injured on November 21, 1963, in a collision. He sued both the Wabash Railroad and the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis; he recovered $30,500 (after a remittitur of $7,500) against the Terminal, but the jury’s verdict was for the Wabash. The Terminal, only, has appealed.

At the time of his injury plaintiff was collecting tickets in the seventh car of a ten-car train, pulled by two diesel units. It was proceeding on the “West Belt Line” tracks of the Terminal and was…