Walden v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Niemeyer

delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of $25,000 in an action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act brought by plaintiff as administrator of the estate of her deceased husband to recover damages resulting from the death of decedent.

On the day of his death and for some time prior thereto decedent was in the employ of defendant as a foreman in charge of five workmen engaged in repairing or rebuilding the Wolf Road Bridge in Proviso, Illinois. This bridge, over a quarter of a mile in length, crossed over the railroad yards of…