St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Cox

Lulu M. Cox instituted this action in the Mississippi County Circuit Court against the St, Louis-San Francisco Bailway Company. The plaintiff alleged that on September 1, 1922, she was a passenger on one of defendant’s trains going from St. Lonis, Missouri, to Osceola, Arkansas; that the train was derailed near Star-land, Missouri, resulting in severe injuries to plaintiff’s person and to her damage in the sum of $3,000, for which sum she prayed judgment.

The defendant answered and set up a written release executed October 25, 1922, in which it was recited that, on September 1, 1922, Lulu M.…