VANDAVEER v. NORFOLK & WESTERN RY. CO.

Gen. No. 66-23.

78 Ill. App.2d 186 (1966)

222 N.E.2d 897

Gladys M. Vandaveer, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company, a Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

December 31, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pope and Driemeyer, of East St. Louis, for appellant.

Chapman, Strawn & Kinder, of Granite City (Morris B. Chapman, of counsel), for appellee.


EBERSPACHER, J.

Defendant, Norfolk and Western Railway Company, appeals from a $40,000 judgment entered on a jury verdict, in a case brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA, 45 USCA, 51), assigning as error the court's denial of the post-trial motion, which prayed for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and in the alternative a new trial.

The plaintiff, Gladys Vandaveer, was a 37-year-old married woman, who, since she was 18 years old, had...

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