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REDIKER v. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RLD.

No. 48,648

1 Kan. App. 2d 581 (1977)

571 P.2d 70

HARRY REDIKER, Appellee, v. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Petition for review denied October 26, 1977.

Certiorari granted March 20, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Bennett, Jr., of Davis and Bennett, of Topeka, and John J. Jurcyk, Jr., of McAnany, Van Cleave and Phillips, of Kansas City, for the appellant.

G. Michael O'Neal, of Hubbell, Lane and Sawyer, of Kansas City, Mo., and Robert D. Loughbom, of Kansas City, for the appellee.

Before HARMAN, C.J., FOTH and SPENCER, JJ.

HARMAN, C.J.:

Plaintiff sued defendant railroad pursuant to the Federal Employers' Liability Act for loss of a leg and other injuries sustained when he fell beneath the wheels of a freight car on which he was coupling air hoses. Trial to a jury resulted in a verdict for plaintiff for $450,000. Defendant appeals from a judgment rendered thereon.

Plaintiff Harry Rediker, forty-two years of age, had worked for...

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