Freeman v. Terminal Railroad Assn.

Action for personal injury under the Federal Employers' Liability Act. 45 U.S.C.A., Section 51 et seq. The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $17,500. Pending motion for new trial, a remittitur of $5000 was filed, and the motion was overruled. This appeal followed.

Plaintiff was a member of a switching crew and on January 11, 1934, about one-fifty-five A.M., was injured in defendant's CD yards in East St. Louis, Illinois. Plaintiff went to the jury on the charge of negligence that the engineer kicked a car over a switch where plaintiff was working without a come ahead signal…