Case Name: Wilburn COMBS, Appellant, v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1959-06-09
Citations: 112 So. 2d 855
Docket Number: No. A-46
Parties: Wilburn COMBS, Appellant, v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
Judges: STURGIS, C. J., and CARROLL, DONALD K., and WIGGINTON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 112
Pages: 855–855

Head Matter:
Wilburn COMBS, Appellant, v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
No. A-46.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.
June 9, 1959.
Lee & Tomlinson, and Tom B. Stewart, Jr., Jacksonville, for appellant.
Kurz & Toole, Jacksonville, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In this suit, filed by an employee against the railroad under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq.), the trial judge, after discharging the jury, which had been unable to agree upon a verdict, granted the appellee-railroad's motion for directed verdict and entered a final judgment for the appellee based upon such directed verdict. The appellant appeals and contends that there was sufficient substantial evidence at the trial from which the jury could have lawfully found the appellee liable under the Federal Act. We have examined the record and agree that this contention is sound under the liberal doctrines recognized under that act by the Florida Supreme Court in Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Barrett, 101 So.2d 37, and by many federal courts. The judgment appealed from is therefore reversed with directions for a new trial of the issues.
STURGIS, C. J., and CARROLL, DONALD K., and WIGGINTON, JJ., concur.