Plourd v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co.

This is. an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by a brakeman on a freight train when, in the process of stopping that 74-car train, the “slack ran in” with such violence as to throw plaintiff to the floor of the caboose. The case was tried before a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $400,000.

Defendant does not deny that there was sufficient evidence to take the case to the jury, but contends that-it is-entitled to a new trial because of vaiy ious errors.

*6701. The trial court erred in submitting to the jury a specification not supported by any…