Payne v. Cornhusker Motor Lines, Inc.

NANNETTE A. BAKER, Judge.

Charles Payne (“Plaintiff’), a train engineer for Union Pacific, was operating a train near Paragould, Arkansas when it collided with a tractor-trailer owned by Cornhusker Motor Lines (“Defendant”). Plaintiff sued for injuries sustained in the accident and a jury awarded him $3,500,000.00 in damages and assessed him to be 15% at fault. The court granted Plaintiffs motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (“JNOV”) and reversed the jury’s comparative fault findings. Defendant appealed. 1

Defendant raises nine points on appeal: (1) the trial court erred in granting…