Hack v. New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad

The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Eailroad Company, hereafter referred to as the defendant, has taken this appeal from a judgment in the amount of $40,000 entered on the verdict of a jury in favor of Frank Hack, hereafter referred to as the plaintiff, in a personal injury action brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U.S.C.A., secs. 51-60).

• On the date of the accident, August 9, 1956, a Pullman Standard Company truck, driven by an employee of the Pullman Standard Company, delivered at the freight house of the defendant in Michigan City, Indiana, a steel box which weighed…