JOHNSON v. CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RY. CO.

No. 36,107.

242 Minn. 130 (1954)

WILLIAM A. JOHNSON v. CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

April 30, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald A. Chapman, for appellant.

Thomas Mohn, Faegre & Benson, Wright W. Brooks, and Paul J. McGough, for respondent.


MATSON, JUSTICE.

Plaintiff appeals from an order denying his motion to set aside a directed verdict and grant a new trial.

This is an action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act by an employee for damages for injuries suffered in a head-on collision between two trains.

On June 2, 1951, at 7:10 a.m., a 157-car freight train left Stockton, Illinois, westbound for Oelwein, Iowa. William Johnson, the plaintiff, was the engineer of the five-unit Diesel...

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