Bradshaw v. Payne

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

Claude B. Bradshaw, about seventeen years of age, was one of a party of boys who had been on a coon-hunting trip to the Neosho river east of Parsons, and who were returning to the- city between two and three o’clock in the morning, traveling in an automobile owned and operated by Frank Miller, when the car was struck at a street crossing by a shunted freight car of defendant’s, resulting in the death of young Bradshaw. In this action the parents recovered a judgment for damages, and the defendant appeals.

The switch yards of defendant in the…