Schendel v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

Action under the Federal Employers Liability Act to recover for the death of Clarence Y. Hope, plaintiff’s intestate, an employe of the defendant. There was a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial was denied. The defendant appeals from the judgment entered upon the verdict.

The decedent’s death occurred in Iowa in a rear-end collision between a through passenger train and an engine and. caboose upon which the deceased and other members of the crew were going home to dinner after hauling state and interstate cars from the coal…