Boyd v. Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

Plaintiff, Joseph Boyd, Jr., instituted this action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., against the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis for $75,000 for personal injuries. A jury returned a verdict for defendant, and plaintiff has appealed from the ensuing judgment.

Plaintiff’s case was submitted to the jury in Plaintiff’s Instruction No. I on the theory that plaintiff, a switchman, was on a freight car contained in a train of thirteen cars drawn by a switch engine in a westbound switching movement in defendant’s Pick-rell Yard in…