United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 30, 1954.
Rehearing Denied July 30, 1954.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
M. Truman Woodward, Jr., New Orleans, La., Jos. R. Brown, Kansas City, Mo., Elizabeth R. Haak, New Orleans, La., Milling, Saal, Saunders, Benson & Woodward, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellant.
Robert Weinstein, Philip D. Rittenberg, Henry F. Yoder and Fred Bronfin, New Orleans, La., Albert Mintz, of Rittenberg, Weinstein & Bronfin, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellee.
Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, RIVES, Circuit Judge, and DAWKINS, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
RIVES, Circuit Judge.
In an action under the Federal Employer's Liability Act,1 appellee recovered a judgment on a jury's verdict in the amount of $28,000 for personal injuries suffered in a collision between two of the appellant's trains at a point 1.67 miles north of Lettsworth, Louisiana, on August 10, 1951. Appellee was the rear brakeman on a troop train running northward when it collided head on with a streamlined passenger train...
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