Lincoln v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

This cause for personal injury was filed in Dunklin county. The venue was changed to Butler county where a jury trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff and defendant appealed.

The negligence alleged is that defendant in violation of an alleged assurance that its freight train would remain at the station of Lilbourn fifteen or twenty minutes or long enough for plaintiff to water his stock in an emigrant car, negligently backed the train violently against plaintiff’s car and caused him to fall, resulting in the injury complained of. The answer is a general denial, contributory…