Union Pac. R. v. McMican
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. Action by Telie G. McMican, as administratrix, etc., against the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WM. H. MUNGER, District Judge.
In this case plaintiff, in August, 1909, was a passenger upon a mixed train of the defendant in the state of Kansas. The train consisted of some 22 freight cars, a baggage car, and a coach. The engine and some of the cars were detached when plaintiff took passage. He entered the coach, and while standing in the aisle at the end of a seat, making some mem-oranda, the engine, with some of the cars, backed up to the coach, the cars coming together, as claimed, with such a sudden jar as to throw him off his feet down in the aisle; that a lady with a child, standing…
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