Noakes v. Lattavo

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

The tribunal to decide this case was the jury and its verdict, save for the reduction hereinafter made, must be upheld, for in no other respect do we find in the record any error which would justify this court in sustaining defendants’ appeals.

Plaintiff was employed by the Union Railroad Company as a brakeman. In the early evening of November 15, 1940, he was working on a train which was being operated within the plant of the Irwin Works of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Across the mill property ran a 20 foot wide macadam road intersected at right…