HILDEBRAND v. BALTIMORE & O.R. CO.

Gen. No. 63-F-17.

41 Ill. App.2d 217 (1963)

190 N.E.2d 630

Lee Hildebrand, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

May 10, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Costello, Wiechert, and Robert & Gundlach, of East St. Louis (John C. Roberts, Edw. W. Stubbs, Jr., Richard Allen, and Kenneth H. Ekin, of counsel), for appellant.

James A. Dooley, of Chicago, for appellee.


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 inspectors...

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