Catherine L. Turner Fulk, Administrator of the Estate of Larry D. Turner, Deceased, and Catherine Turner Fulk v. Illinois Central Railroad Company

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• holding that an appeal is not moot where the litigant “retains some 3 1 interest in the case, so that a decision in [her] favor will inure to [her] benefit” (internal quotation 2 marks omitted)
• \the question of whether a duty exists in the first place remains with the court\
• in a FELA case, whether the defendant has a duty to protect the plaintiff is a question of law and is not for the jury to decide
• “determination of any question of duty—that is, whether the law imposed upon the 14 No. 18-3507 defendant the obligation to protect the plaintiff against the consequences which occurred—is a question of law, and is not for the jury.”
• “determination of any question of duty—that is, whether the law imposed upon the 14 No. 18-3507 defendant the obligation to protect the plaintiff against the consequences which occurred—is a question of law, and is not for the jury.”
• breach of duty is a question for the jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).