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VERMILLION v. BURLINGTON NORTHERN R. CO.

No. 59066.

813 S.W.2d 947 (1991)

Richard VERMILLION, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Three.

August 20, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Allen Brasher, Eric Kendall Banks, and Richard Daly, St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.

Edward L. Dowd Jr., Morris B. Chapman, and Clarence Harrison, St. Louis, for plaintiff-respondent.

STEPHAN, Judge.

Defendant Burlington Northern Railroad Company appeals from a verdict and judgment against it in the amount of $785,000 in favor of plaintiff Richard Vermillion who was injured while performing his duties as a conductor of one of defendant's trains. Plaintiff had been seated at a desk in the caboose of the train when the caboose suddenly derailed and came to a sudden stop from its previous speed of forty-five miles per hour causing plaintiff to be...

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