M.J. KELLY, J.
Defendant appeals as of right from a jury verdict of $1.5 million in favor of plaintiff, reduced by one-third for the comparative negligence of plaintiff's decedent. We affirm.
FACTS
On September 30, 1976, plaintiff's decedent was struck and killed by one of defendant's trains as he sat in a rented dump truck straddling defendant's railroad tracks. The decedent, 49-year-old Charles L. Kovacs, and John Hibbard, an employee of Copeland...
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