McKay v. Monongahela Ry. Co.

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court entered on the verdict of a jury for the appellee, who was plaintiff below.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, McKay, who was an employee of the defendant, to recover for injuries alleged to have been sustained as the result of a fall from an electric crane in defendant’s railroad shops while both he and his employer were engaged in interstate commerce.

The ease was tried to the court and jury, and a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff. A motion for a new trial was denied, and the defendant appealed to…