McAdow v. Kansas City Western Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

G. B. McAdow brought an action against the Kansas City Western Eailway Company upon an oral contract of insurance which he alleged had been made at the time of his employment as a motorman, by which the company agreed, in consideration of fifty cents a month being deducted from his pay, that if he should be injured in its service he should receive half wages during the time (not exceeding a year) of his resulting disability. At the conclusion of the evidence the court directed a verdict for the defendant, and a judgment was rendered…