Mooney v. Terminal Railroad Association

The respondent administratrix recovered judgment for $35,000 damages against the appellant Railroad Association under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, for the negligent killing of her husband, the intestate, while he was working as a switchman in appellant's freight yard in St. Louis. The cause was argued in this Division and an opinion delivered in March of this year. That opinion held the cause was and could be properly submitted under the Missouri humanitarian doctrine, but reversed and remanded it for procedural errors, these being improper cross-examination by respondent’s counsel…