Schmidt v. Great Northern Railroad

Plaintiff sued his employer for damages suffered when he fell from a locomotive on which he was working. The jury found for the defendant. Plaintiff appeals from the judgment entered on the verdict.

The question involved is whether a jury instruction and an answer to a question by the jury wrongfully., injected *41the issue of negligence and contributory negligence in a strict liability case brought under the Federal Boiler Inspection Act, 45 U.S.C. § 22 et seq. Plaintiff claims the jury was erroneously misled into believing that a verdict for plaintiff depended on whether defendant negligently…