Kepner v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

This is an action, under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while adjusting a sand pipe on a turntable in the repair yards of defendant at Beech Grove, Indiana. Trial to a jury resulted in a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $50,000, which upon remittitur was reduced to $25,000, for which sum judgment was entered, and defendant appealed.

Defendant is a railroad corporation and at the time in question was an interstate carrier operating its line of railroad through the States of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan. It maintained its repair…