ALLEN v. UNION PACIFIC R. CO.

No. 29783-CA.

698 So.2d 1037 (1997)

Jacob Joseph ALLEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY and Charles Killion, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

August 20, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh by J. Michael Hart, George M. Snellings, IV, Monroe, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Hudson, Potts & Bernstein by W. Craig Henry, Jay P. Adams, Monroe, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before MARVIN C.J., and NORRIS and CARAWAY, JJ.


MARVIN, Chief Judge.

In this personal injury action arising out of a train-pedestrian accident that was tried by jury, the plaintiff, Jacob Allen, appeals the dismissal of his action against the railroad and its engineer by the trial court's JNOV [judgment notwithstanding the verdict] which was based on the court's finding that a rational jury could not have concluded, as the jury did in what the court labeled "contradictory" answers to verdict interrogatories, that...

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