Legal Opinion
Downs v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided January 3, 1952No. Gen. 44,899PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Tuohy
delivered the opinion of the court.
Defendant, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, appeals from a $75,000 judgment entered against it in favor of plaintiff, Richard Downs, upon a jury verdict for personal injuries in an action brought under provisions of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act.
The accident happened on the night of May 24,1947, while the boat S. B. Way, carrying ore consigned from Duluth, Minnesota, to American Bolling Mill in Hamilton, Ohio, was being unloaded for cargo transfer on defendant’s docks at Toledo, Ohio. The ore was unloaded from the holds of…
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