CINCINNATI, NEW ORLEANS & TEX. PAC. R. CO. v. UNDERWOOD

No. 13461.

262 F.2d 375 (1958)

CINCINNATI, NEW ORLEANS & TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. James Lloyd UNDERWOOD, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

December 9, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde W. Key, of Key & Lee, Knoxville, Tenn., Howard H. Baker, Jr., of Baker & Baker, Huntsville, Tenn. (Whitaker, Hall & Haynes, Chattanooga, Tenn., on the brief), for appellant.

Stuart F. Dye, of Kramer, Dye, McNabb & Greenwood, Knoxville, Tenn. (George H. Buxton, Jr., Harry Joyce, Wartburg, Tenn., on the brief), for appellee.

Before ALLEN, Chief Judge, and SIMONS and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.


MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad Company, defendant in the district court, from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury for $18,000 damages for personal injuries, consisting in the main of "contact dermatitis."

The appellee, Underwood, long had been in the service of the carrier, having entered its employ in April of 1928. He worked for appellant continuously until January 15, 1955, with...

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