Legal Opinion
Stevens v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 9, 1996No. 96-1134PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
David Stevens, a railway trackman with sixteen years of service at the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company, suffered back injuries from an accident on the job. The jury in his Federal Employers’ Liability Act action awarded him $450,000. 1 The Railroad appeals from the verdict and the denial of its motion for a new trial, saying the evidence showed neither negligence nor foreseeability and that certain evidentiary rulings were in error.
The Railroad raises two issues of weight. It argues it was unfairly prejudiced by the exclusion of evidence of a cardiac event suffered by…
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