Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Groves
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Wyandotte Court of Common.Pleas. Edward Jackson, a passenger on an east-bound train -of the Union Pacific Railway Company,'was killed at a point a little west of Rock Island Junction, about 7 o’clock in the morning of October .22, 1890, by reason of a rear-end collision between said train and a train of the defendant company, which was following it.
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Error from Wyandotte Court of Common.Pleas. Edward Jackson, a passenger on an east-bound train -of the Union Pacific Railway Company,'was killed at a point a little west of Rock Island Junction, about 7 o’clock in the morning of October .22, 1890, by reason of a rear-end collision between said train and a train of the defendant company, which was following it. Under some kind of a lease or trackage contract between the two companies (not introduced in evidence) the defendant’s passenger-trains between North Topeka and the union depot at Kansas City, Mo., were run over the track of the Union…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Martin, C. J.:
I. The principal question is whether the Rock Island train was so far under the control of the Union Pacific company that the negligence of the Rock Island crew must be imputed to the Union Pacific company, the defendant company being thereby exonerated from liability. Counsel for defendant seek to cast the blame upon the train-dispatcher and operators in failing to stop the following train, particularly at Bonner Springs, and upon the Union Pacific crew in taking in the tail-lights, and failing to keep a brakeman on the rear end of the…
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