Corbett v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, George W. Lubke, Judge. The court erred in admitting illegal and improper evidence offered by the plaintiff, and in excluding legal and proper evidence offered by the defendant. Railroad v. Huntley, 38 Mich. 537. The court erred in refusing the instruction, in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence, asked by the defendant at the close of the ■whole case.
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Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, George W. Lubke, Judge. The court erred in admitting illegal and improper evidence offered by the plaintiff, and in excluding legal and proper evidence offered by the defendant. Railroad v. Huntley, 38 Mich. 537. The court erred in refusing the instruction, in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence, asked by the defendant at the close of the ■whole case. Hoke v. Railroad, 11 Mo. 579 ; Rollback v. Railroad, 43 Mo. 187; Whalen v. Railroad, 8 Ohio St. 249; Oormley v. Railroad, 72 Ind. 31; Collins v. Railroad, 31 Minn. 31; Henry v. Railroad, 81 N. Y.…
1Opinion of the CourtRombauer, J.
The plaintiff, who was a railroad section hand and ■track repairer, was engaged in unloading cinders from *623one of the defendant’s platform cars, which stood npon the railroad track of the defendant. He was standing-on the car, facing- sonth, in the performance of this duty, when one of the defendant’s trains, coming from the north, and running on the same track on which the train of platform cars was standing, collided with the latter, and, by dint of the collision, threw the plaintiff with violence to the forward end of the car, whereby his head received a severe cut or gash. He brought this…
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