Rhodes v. Mo. Pac. R.R. Co.

This is an action for damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff on March 20, 1921, immediately after she had become a passenger on one of defendant's passenger trains, at Platow Station, in Wayne County, Missouri. She boarded the northbound train at that point on her way to Des Arc, in Iron County, and just after boarding the train, and while on the way from the door of the coach to a seat, she claims to have been injured by the sudden and violent jerk of the train, which threw her with great force against the floor, breaking and injuring her clavicle or collar bone,…