REESE v. ILLINOIS TERMINAL RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 44014.

273 S.W.2d 217 (1954)

Lloyd REESE, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. ILLINOIS TERMINAL RAILROAD COMPANY, a Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri. Division No. 1.

December 13, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Ely, Ely & Ely, Alphonso H. Voorhees, St. Louis, for (defendant) appellant.

Sievers, Reagan & Schwartz, St. Louis, Samuel J. Goldenhersh, St. Louis, John G. Dufner, Granite City, Ill., for (plaintiff) respondent.


VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a $30,000 judgment rendered in plaintiff's action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S. C.A. § 51 et seq., for personal injuries sustained February 8, 1951, when plaintiff on duty as a switchman in defendant's employ, slipped and fell when operating Switch No. 5 in defendant's McKinley Yards at Madison, Illinois.

Plaintiff had alleged,

"5. That on the date aforesaid, and for several...

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