State Ex Rel. Alton Railroad Co. v. Shain

Certiorari to the judges of the Kansas City Court of Appeals, bringing up the record of that court in Brown v. Alton Railroad Co., 132 S. W. (2d) 713. The action was based on the wrongful death statute, for the negligent killing of plaintiff’s husband in a collision between one of relator’s motor trains and a trailer-truck carrying cattle, at a highway crossing in Marshall. The deceased was one of three passengers on the truck, the other two being another handler of the cattle and the truck driver. The cause was submitted to the jury on primary negligence in the violation of a speed ordinance…