Edgington v. Southern Pacific Co.

The defendant, Southern Pacific Company, appeals from a judgment for $7,500 entered in plaintiff’s favor after trial by a jury. The action was one for damages on account of personal injuries sustained by plaintiff during the course of his employment with defendant as a brakeman on a freight train engaged in interstate commerce. The jury was called upon to render three verdicts, two special and one general. The interrogatory embodied in the first special verdict was answered in defendant’s favor, and the one embodied in the second special verdict was answered in plaintiff’s favor. Stated…