Shelton v. Thomson

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff brought this action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S. C.A. § 51 et seq., and recovered a verdict and a judgment, for injuries sustained by him because of .alleged carbon monoxide poisoning. He operated a crane in a storehouse of the Chicago and North Western Railway Co., the crane being used to lift wheels and other supplies, which were in turn used in the repair of defendant’s freight cars. Plaintiff claims that his continual inhalation of carbon monoxide gas from the crane’s gasoline motor from March or April of 1942 until the fall of 1942,…