Legal Opinion
Ficken v. Alton & Southern Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided September 19, 1997No. 5-95-0338PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Chapman
Plaintiff, Roger Ficken, brought this action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U.S.C.A. § 51 (West 1986)) (FELA) to recover damages allegedly caused by defendant Alton & Southern Railway Company’s negligence in failing to provide a reasonably safe place to work. The jury returned a verdict for Ficken. We affirm.
Alton & Southern operates a switching railroad. Freight railroads bring their trains to the Alton & Southern yard where the trains are broken up into individual cars. The individual cars are switched to different tracks according to destination and then compiled into new…
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