Alfred v. St. Louis, I. M. & S. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Sequoyah County; John H. Pitchford, Judge. Action by John A. Alfred, as administrator of the estate of-Luther Woodring, deceased, against the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company, for damages. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
HARRISON, C.
This was an action by the administrator of the estate of Luther Woodring against the defendant railway company for damages resulting from the death of Woodring, alleged to have been caused by an assault upon Wood-ring b)' a brakeman on a passenger train on defendant road. The plaintiff alleged that Woodring was wrongfully and unlawfully assaulted by the brakeman and beaten with a lantern into a semiconscious state, which caused him to fall off the train, from which fall death resulted. The defendant answered and defended the action on the ground that deceased was drunk…
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