HOFFMAN, JUSTICE.
This is a suit under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 USCA, Sec 51, et seq. The defendant railroad appeals from a judgment on a verdict for $30,000 awarded to the plaintiff for injuries suffered by him in a switching movement in the defendant's yards at Decatur, Illinois.
The accident happened on July 21, 1958. At the time, plaintiff was a job foreman in charge of the car
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