SEIFERTH v. ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY

No. 15529.

368 F.2d 153 (1966)

William C. SEIFERTH and William H. Seiferth, a minor, by William C. Seiferth, his father and next friend, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, a Missouri corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 18, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Stutsman, Walker & Williams, East St. Louis, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Francis D. Conner, East St. Louis, Ill., William J. O'Brien, Chicago, Ill., Wagner, Conner, Ferguson, Bertrand & Baker, East St. Louis, Ill., William M. Flaherty, Chicago, Ill., for William C. Seiferth and William H. Seiferth, plaintiffs-appellees.

Before HASTINGS, Chief Judge, and SCHNACKENBERG and SWYGERT, Circuit Judges.


SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.

This diversity action was brought by William H. Seiferth, a minor, and William C. Seiferth, his father and next friend, citizens of Illinois, against the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, a Missouri corporation with its principal place of business in Texas, for personal injuries sustained by the minor plaintiff while riding in an empty boxcar of one of the defendant's freight trains. The defendant appeals from a judgment entered upon...

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