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

HOUSER, Commissioner.

This is an action for damages brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., against Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis on account of personal injuries sustained by William E. Heiter, a mail handler, while working on defendant’s mail conveyor belt. From a judgment for $5,000 entered on a jury verdict the railroad association has appealed to this court.

The petition alleged that while plaintiff was working on a motionless conveyor belt, with his right hand near a metal slide forming part of the mechanism, a fellow servant named Gage,…