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- Title: Pinkstaff v. Penn. Railroad Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 24, 1964
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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In 1957 plaintiff, Kenneth W. Pinkstaff, won a judgment on a jury verdict in a Federal Employer's Liability Act suit in the circuit court of Cook County against defendant Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the amount of $50,000. Dissatisfied with the amount of the judgment, plaintiff took a sequence of unsuccessful appeals terminating in the denial by the United States Supreme Court on April 17, 1961, of certiorari to review our decision (20 Ill.2d 193) affirming an Appellate Court opinion (23 Ill. App.2d 507) sustaining the trial court judgment. Thereafter a dispute arose between the parties as to whether defendant was liable for interest during the period of 3 1/2 years while appeals were pending. On August 31, 1961, defendant paid into the office of the clerk of the circuit court the sum of $49,250.70 computed on the following basis: