BANKE, Chief Judge.
The appellant sued the appellee, Southern Railway Company, to recover damages under the Federal Employers' Liability Act for the death by heatstroke of her husband, a former employee of the railway. This appeal follows a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the appellee.
On the day he died, the decedent was a member of an 8-man crew assigned to unload a "ballast train," which is a train loaded with rock to be placed on the track...
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