GROVES v. ILLINOIS CENT. GULF R. CO.

No. 89-CA-1737.

563 So.2d 496 (1990)

Mike L. GROVES v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL GULF RAILROAD COMPANY.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 19, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David S. Kelly, Randall A. Fish, Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Dennery, Hunley, Moss & Frilot, New Orleans, for Illinois Cent. R. Co.

Joe M. Inabnett, Walter J. Suthon, III, New Orleans, for Michael L. Groves.

Before KLEES, WARD and BECKER, JJ.


WARD, Judge.

Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company appeals an adverse jury award in a personal injury suit.

Mike L. Groves while employed as a switchman by the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company, now the Illinois Central Railroad, ("IC") suffered ankle and back injuries when he stepped on a box car spring hidden by weeds in a switching yard in Memphis, Tennessee. Groves sued the IC in negligence under the Federal...

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