Russell v. Johnson

Action for personal injury. Plaintiff obtained a judgment for $18,000. Motion for new trial was overruled and defendant appealed.

Defendant had leased from the Kansas City Southern Railway Company about 200 acres of farm land in what is called the East Bottoms of Kansas City. Plaintiff was employed on the farm by defendant, and alleged that his "work and duties consisted of cooking for defendant's employees on said place, of working in the fields and doing chores as his cooking duties permitted," and such other work as defendant, or his foreman, directed. The Kansas City Southern tracks run…