Grier v. Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Thos. B. Allen, Judge. (1) The court erred in refusing to instruct the jury as requested by defendant in its instructions A, B and I), that plaintiff could not recover a sum exceeding-two thousand dollars.
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Appeal from Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Thos. B. Allen, Judge. (1) The court erred in refusing to instruct the jury as requested by defendant in its instructions A, B and I), that plaintiff could not recover a sum exceeding-two thousand dollars. Boyd v. Railroad, 249 Mo. 110; Johnson v. Railroad, 270 Mo. 418; State ex rel. v. Ellison, 213 S. "W. 459; Cooley v. Dunham, 195 S. W. 1058. (2) The court erred in refusing to instruct the jury as requested by defendant in its instructions E, F, and 4. State ex rel. Coal Co. v. Ellison, 270 Mo. 645; State ex rel. Dunham v. Ellison, 213 S. W. 459;…
1Opinion of the Court
This suit was instituted in the Buchanan County Circuit Court to recover the penalty provided by Section 5425, Revised Statutes 1909, for causing death. The plaintiff had judgment and the defendant appeals. We adopt with some slight modifications respondent's statement of the case. As so modified it is as follows:
Ralph W. Grier, of St. Joseph, 38 years of age, a graduate of the Missouri University, a lawyer with a lucrative practice, was injured in a wreck on appellant's railroad, while a passenger thereon, early Thanksgiving morning in 1917, and died the following day in consequence of those…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Casey v. St. Louis Transit Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1905
- Young v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1910
- Boyd v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1913
- Ordway v. Central National BankCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1877
- King v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1889
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