Mitchell v. Wabash Railway Co.

Action for damages for personal injuries in which plaintiff obtained a verdict for $25,000. The circuit court required him to remit $10,000 of the verdict and upon that being done entered a judgment for him for $15,000, from which all the defendants have appealed.

Plaintiff had his right leg crushed by a turntable of defendant railway company at Kansas City. Defendants Whitlock and Burnley were employees of the railway company. Burnley was its foreman in charge of the men employed at and about the turntable and roundhouse and of the work being done and Whitlock was operating the turntable when…