Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. Collier
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western. District of Missouri. This is an action for personal injury, growing, substantially, out of the following state of facts: The defendant in error, hereinafter for convenience designated the plaintiff,, was in -the employ of the plaintiff in error, hereinafter for convenience designated the defendant, as fireman on passenger train known as the “Katy Flyer.”
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western. District of Missouri. This is an action for personal injury, growing, substantially, out of the following state of facts: The defendant in error, hereinafter for convenience designated the plaintiff,, was in -the employ of the plaintiff in error, hereinafter for convenience designated the defendant, as fireman on passenger train known as the “Katy Flyer.” He had been in the employ of the defendant as fireman for about 15 months prior to the accident, and had for a considerable time prior to this-service worked as a fireman on…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilips, District Judge
(after stating the facts • as above). In the original petition, filed November 4, 1904, the negligent acts imputed to the defendant as the basis of recovery were: (1) the failure of the agents and servants in charge of said freight train to so adjust and set the south switch at Lewis Station as to permit the passenger train to pass through; and (2) the failure to have “a light at said switch so as to enable the plaintiff to see whether or not said switch was properly adjusted and set.” The defendant answered this petition on the 25th day of November, 1904. Thus the issues stood until the…
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