Krummack v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

Action to recover for the negligent killing of a child. Plaintiff recovered a judgment for the sum of $2,500, and defendant appeals.

The accident occurred in the switching-yards of defendant in the city of Lincoln. The petition charges that for many years there had been situated on T street, immediately east of Ninth street, a public school building, usually attended during the school year by from 300 to 400 children; that a playground equipped with amusement apparatus was maintained upon the school grounds; that the deceased, a boy of the age of seven years, was amusing himself at the…