LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE R.R. v. ATKINS

82-316.

435 So.2d 1275 (1983)

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD v. Ronald T. ATKINS.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

August 5, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry E. Simpson and Craig A. Alexander of Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, for appellant.

Francis H. Hare, Jr., James J. Thompson, Jr., and John W. Haley of Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, Birmingham, for appellee.


BEATTY, Justice.

This is an appeal by the defendant, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, from the grant of a new trial in an action brought against it by one of its employees under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA). We remand with directions.

The facts surrounding the injury are straightforward and require little amplification. Plaintiff was a head brakeman working on a switching crew and, while standing on a switch tie, made a misstep, lost...

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