Slater v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff recovered a verdict in the sum of $12,500, but the court, believing it was excessive, required a remittitur in the sum of $8,000. From a final judgment in the sum of $4,500 defendant has appealed.

The facts show that plaintiff was a railway mail clerk in the employ of the United States Government. He had for some years been working in mail cars owned by the defendant and operated by it between Kansas City and Tulsa, Oklahoma. A mail car would be set in a train at defendant's station at Tulsa about nine o'clock at night, plaintiff…