Hawes v. Kansas City Stock-Yards Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. J. TI. Slover, Judge. The instruction referred to in the opinion reads as follows: “1. Although the jury should believe from the testimony that the plaintiff had knowledge of the dangerous aud vicious character of the horse in question, yet if the defendant’s managers also knew of it and after plaintiff had mounted the horse said managers or any one of them, whipped or caused the horse to be whipped and thereby rendered it more…
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. J. TI. Slover, Judge. The instruction referred to in the opinion reads as follows: “1. Although the jury should believe from the testimony that the plaintiff had knowledge of the dangerous aud vicious character of the horse in question, yet if the defendant’s managers also knew of it and after plaintiff had mounted the horse said managers or any one of them, whipped or caused the horse to be whipped and thereby rendered it more dangerous and unmanageable, and if, by reason thereof, the plaintiff, without fault on his part and while in the exercise of…
1Opinion of the CourtBarclay, J.
This action is to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff in consequence of alleged negligence of defendant as proprietor of large stock-yards in Kansas City.
Defendant denied all fault and charged contributory negligence upon plaintiff, which the latter denied in his reply.
For the purposes of this appeal it will not be necessary, in the view we take of it, to give more than a bare outline of the case as presented by the record.
Plaintiff’s evidence tends to show that he was in defendant's employ about its sale stables and was directed to ride one of its horses for the…
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