Hicks v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Livingston Circuit Court. — Hon. E. J. Broaddus? Judge. The plaintiff asked the following iristructions, which were given by the court: 1. If the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff, Mrs. Hicks, purchased of defendant a ticket for herself and two infant children for the purpose of being carried as a passenger over defendant’s railroad from Kansas City to Utica, Missouri, and that defendant then and there received Mrs. Hicks with her said children on…
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Appeal from Livingston Circuit Court. — Hon. E. J. Broaddus? Judge. The plaintiff asked the following iristructions, which were given by the court: 1. If the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff, Mrs. Hicks, purchased of defendant a ticket for herself and two infant children for the purpose of being carried as a passenger over defendant’s railroad from Kansas City to Utica, Missouri, and that defendant then and there received Mrs. Hicks with her said children on its train as a passenger aforesaid, and that defendant, by its conductor, servants or employees, compelled Mrs. Hicks and…
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
This suit was instituted in the Livingston county circuit court for damages. The petition alleged the •incorporation of defendant, and that, on the 9th day of September, 1874, Mrs. Sarah flicks, wife of her co-plaintiff, E. M. Hicks, and her two infant children, were received by defendant, into its passenger train, at Kansas City, Missouri, to be carried to Utica, Missouri, she having purchased a ticket for passage between said points ; that on the arrival of said train at Breckenridge, a station about ten miles west of Utica, the defendant, by its conductor and agents, by force, and against…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Smith v. City of St. JosephSupreme Court of Missouri · 1870
- Kennedy v. North Missouri RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1865
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, & St. Louis Railway Co. v. NuzumIndiana Supreme Court · 1874
- Smith v. City of St. JosephSupreme Court of Missouri · 1874
- Greene v. GallagherSupreme Court of Missouri · 1864
3Cited by15 opinions
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- Rose v. Wilmington & Weldon RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1890
- Clark v. ReisingSupreme Court of Missouri · 1937
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