Steve Debiasio v. Illinois Central Railroad

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• explaining that evidence \offered to impeach . . . [is] not demonstrative evidence\ for the purposes of the local rules
• upholding a $4,201,000 damage award for a plaintiff who was injured and lost his left arm while employed with Illinois Central Railroad
• “The railroad is liable if ‘the proofs justify with reason the conclusion that employer negligence played any part, even the slightest, in producing the injury . . . .’ ”
• testimony by worker that, based on his 13 years of experience, the sequence of events indicated that the cars had made impact but failed to couple automatically, enough to submit case to the jury even though no one witnessed the actual impact

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