Rediker v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad

Harman, C.J.:

Plaintiff sued defendant railroad pursuant to the *582Federal Employers’ Liability Act for loss of a leg and other injuries sustained when he fell beneath the wheels of a freight car on which he was coupling air hoses. Trial to a jury resulted in a verdict for plaintiff for $450,000. Defendant appeals from a judgment rendered thereon.

Plaintiff Harry Rediker, forty-two years of age, had worked for the Rock Island Railroad as a carman and car inspector at its Herington, Kansas, yards for twenty-two years prior to his injury. On the day in question, September 10, 1973, he commenced work…