Huffman v. Terminal Railroad Ass'n of St. Louis

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a $20,000 judgment rendered, in plaintiff’s action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § SI et seq., for personal injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff when he slipped and fell in the oily, slick area north of No. 1 interchange track in the Roselake Yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Illinois. At the time of his injury, plaintiff, a member of a switch crew in the employ of defendant Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, was engaged in the movement and delivery or interchange of a “cut” or train of cars from…