Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Young
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from, Leavenworth District Gowrt. Action by Eornig to recover damages for the loss of a hand while in defendant’s service. The case is almost exactly like that of the Union Pacific Ply. Go. v. MUUlcen, ante, p. 617. Crane was the name of the engineer whose alleged incompetency and negligence caused the injury. The case was tried at the May Term 1869. The instructions given and refused, so far as they are material to the question decided, are stated in tbe opinion.
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Error from, Leavenworth District Gowrt. Action by Eornig to recover damages for the loss of a hand while in defendant’s service. The case is almost exactly like that of the Union Pacific Ply. Go. v. MUUlcen, ante, p. 617. Crane was the name of the engineer whose alleged incompetency and negligence caused the injury. The case was tried at the May Term 1869. The instructions given and refused, so far as they are material to the question decided, are stated in tbe opinion. Yerdict and judgment for plaintiff for $9,000 damages. Tbe railway company bring the case bere on error.
1Opinion of the Court
Tbe opinion of tbe court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
This case, like tbe case of tbe same plaintiff in error against Milliken, just decided, was an action by an employee against bis employer, for injuries resulting from tbe alleged negligence of a co-employee. Botb cases were tried at tbe same term, before tbe same court. In botb tbe permanent injury was tbe same, tbe loss of a band, and happening while ■engaged in tbe same kind of service, that of attempting to couple cars. Tbe two verdicts were respectively nine and ten thousand dollars. Tbe first and last points considered in tbe opinion…
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