Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Kendall
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Iowa. Before SANBORN and HOOK, Circuit Judges, and AMIDON, District Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
AMIDON, District Judge.
This is an action to recover damages for personal injury. In his complaint plaintiff alleges that while he was stepping from a passenger train of the defendant, after it had stopped at the station for which he held passage, and the brakeman bad called out the name of the station, the train was suddenly and violently backed, and he was thereby thrown down and his knee seriously and permanently injured. On the trial he took the wilness stand in his own behalf, and while undergoing cross-examination was asked to expose his knee to the jury for inspection. Objection was at…
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- Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad v. HorstSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
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