Duchsherer v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Defendant, Northern Pacific Railway Company, appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff in an action seeking damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff cross-appeals from an order of remittitur in which the trial court reduced the jury verdict from $100,000 to $60,000 or, in the alternative, granted a new trial.

At the time of this accident, plaintiff George E. Duchsherer, was a section foreman for the Northern Pacific, based at Wymer, in Yakima County. As part of his duties, plaintiff occasionally had to make a journey to Selah to replenish supplies of gasoline…