Butynski v. Springfield Terminal Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• remarking that a concession by counsel must be \clear and unambiguous\ to bind a party
• “[T]he employer must show that ‘the plaintiff’s own negligence played a part in causing the injury.’”
• An “employer who has asserted a defense of contributory negligence in a FELA case is entitled to a jury instruction on that defense as long as the record contains some evidence from which contributory negligence can be inferred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).