Pansik v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

This was an action by the administrator of the estate of Paul Pansik to recover damages for the negligent killing of his decedent.

Plaintiff alleged in his ■ petition that the defendants were negligent in causing their train of cars to be backed across Nicholas street and allowing it to stand there in a solid train, consisting of some 26 cars, for several minutes, thus forbidding the free use of the street; that they *235were negligent in uncoupling the train at a point north of Nicholas street; that they were negligent in causing a part of said train to start up suddenly and with a jerk towards…