St. Louis National Stock Yards v. Godfrey
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the Case.—Personal injury. Appeal from the City Court of East St. Louis; the Hon. Silas Cook, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the August term, 1901.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Creighton
This was an action in case, in the City Court of East St. Louis, by appellee against appellant, to recover for a personal injury. Trial by jury. Verdict for appellee in the sum of §5,500. Remittitur of $1,500. Judgment on the verdict for $4,000.
The declaration is, in substance, that appellee was in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio South-Western Railroad Company as a locomotive engineer, and required in the discharge of his duties to operate and run a certain switching engine of said company, in hauling freight cars into and out of the yards of the defendant at said city, and defendant was…
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