Carpenter v. Wabash Ry. Co.

VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judge.

February 13, 1931, appellant herein, plaintiff below, recovered in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, a judgment against the Wabash Railway Company in the sum of $15,000 for injuries sustained in the course of his employment as an employee of said company. On appeal to the Supreme Court of Missouri this judgment was affirmed on condition that a remittitur of $5,000 be entered. 335 Mo. 130, 71 S.W.2d 1071. This was done and the judgment in the sum of $10,000 stands as of February 13, 1931. December 1, 1931, the T. J. Moss Tie Company, a…