Meyers v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.

Appeal by the plaintiff from an order denying a new trial after a directed verdict for defendant. The defendant is an interstate carrier by railroad. George Meyers, past 22 years of age, was killed at Gladstone, Michigan, March 20, 1923, while in the employ of the defendant as a switchman in its yards at that place. This action was brought under the Federal Employers Liability Act to recover for his death which occurred between 3 and 4 o’clock in the morning. He had been in the employ of the defendant company something over a month and had worked as a switchman for another railroad about 18…