Pinkstaff v. Pennsylvania Railroad

In 1957 plaintiff, Kenneth W. Pinkstaff, won a judgment on a jury verdict in a Federal Employer’s Liability Act suit in the circuit court of Cook County against defendant Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the amount of $50,000. Dissatisfied with the amount of the judgment, plaintiff took a sequence of unsuccessful appeals terminating in the denial by the United States Supreme Court on April 17, 1961, of certiorari to review our decision (20 Ill.2d 193) affirming an Appellate Court opinion (23 Ill. App. 2d 507) sustaining the trial court judgment. Thereafter a dispute arose between the parties…