Hicks v. Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson County Circuit Court. 59 Penn. St., 129; 18 C. B. 46; 7 Met., 596; 12 Id. 485; 31 Vt. 79 ; Beadle vs. Eastern Counties R. R. Co,, 2 C. B. N. S., 509; Case vs. Storer, 4 ExcL, 31, 319 ; Warfell vs. Tbe South Wales R. R. Co., 8 O. B. N. S., 525, 534, .(E. C. L. R., vol. 98) ; Bolch vs. Smith, 7 Hurl. & Nor., 736 (1862), affirming Hounsell vs. Smyth, 7 C. B. N. S., 731 (E. C. L. R., vol. 97); Smith vs. St. Joe, 45 Mo. 449 ; Barker vs. Midland Rly.
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Appeal from Jackson County Circuit Court. 59 Penn. St., 129; 18 C. B. 46; 7 Met., 596; 12 Id. 485; 31 Vt. 79 ; Beadle vs. Eastern Counties R. R. Co,, 2 C. B. N. S., 509; Case vs. Storer, 4 ExcL, 31, 319 ; Warfell vs. Tbe South Wales R. R. Co., 8 O. B. N. S., 525, 534, .(E. C. L. R., vol. 98) ; Bolch vs. Smith, 7 Hurl. & Nor., 736 (1862), affirming Hounsell vs. Smyth, 7 C. B. N. S., 731 (E. C. L. R., vol. 97); Smith vs. St. Joe, 45 Mo. 449 ; Barker vs. Midland Rly. Co., 18 C. B. 58 (E. C. L. R., vol. 86); Winterboftom vs. Wright, 10 M. & W., 109 ; Sweeney vs. Old Colony and Newport R. R. Co.,…
1Opinion of the CourtHenry, Judge
This was ah action by plaintiff to recover against defendant damages for a personal injury received under the following circumstances :
*432Plaintiff, at the time of the injury, was between twelve and fourteen years of age. On the evening of August, 1872, plaintiff was at defendant’s platform at Lee’s Summit, in .Tackson county, when a freight train from the eastcamein on defendant’s road.
It was about dusk, and a piece of timber with which one of the cars was loaded, projecting over the side of the car from twenty inches to two feet, struck plaintiff and broke his nose and otherwise injured him.
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