CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Bryant

SHORES, Justice.

This is a hearing loss case brought under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), 45 U.S.C. § 51 et seq. The plaintiff, Jimmy Wayne Bryant, an employee of CSX Transportation, Inc., in Louisville, Kentucky, sued on November 24, 1986, in Jefferson County, Alabama, claiming that he had been exposed to extremely loud noise while he was working for CSX between 1969 and 1985 and that that noise had caused his loss of hearing. The case was tried before a jury, which found for Bryant in the amount of $25,000. CSX filed a motion for a new trial or, in the alternative, for j.n.o.v.,…