Sprinkle v. St. Louis S. F. R. Co.

The substance of count A of the complaint is that, “while plaintiff was standing by the side of defendant’s track,” within reach of the open swinging doors of a refrigerator car in a passing train, he was stricken and injured by one of those doors, and that this resulted proximately from the negligence of defendant’s servants or agents, while acting within the line of their employment, in that they “negligently failed to use all the means at their command to prevent said door from striking plaintiff after becoming aware of plaintiff’s peril of being struck by said door, when by the use of…