This is an appeal from an order granting Seaboard System Railroad's motion for a new trial. Appellant, Richard Coffee, had received a jury award for compensatory damages in the amount of $895,000.
Coffee worked as a trainman for Seaboard. Part of his job was to switch hopper cars at a private side rail owned by the Jessie Morrie Sand Company. While working at this particular location, Coffee stepped from...
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