Humble v. Union Pacific Railroad

The sole question presented by this appeal from the judgment is whether the sum of $20,000 damages awarded by the jury is excessive.

Plaintiff and respondent, married and the father of two children, was a fireman employed by defendant and appellant railroad company. He was injured on December 18, 1946, at Lund, Utah. Plaintiff was standing on top of the tender of an engine taking on water when the tender was struck by another train, causing him to fall from the tender and strike his head on the coupler between tender and engine. Upon the trial of the action, brought under the Federal…