Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Thurlow
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. Action by Iola Thurlow against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
FINER, District Judge.
This was an action brought by the defendant in error, hereafter called the plaintiff, against the plaintiff in error, hereafter called the defendant, to recover damages for the death of her husband, which she alleges in her petition was caused by the negligence of the defendant. The record discloses the following facts:
On February 28, 1908, W. C. Thurlow, the husband of the plaintiff, loaded a car at Oxford, Kan., with household goods, farming implements, wearing apparel, bedding, four horses, and a wagon, for the purpose of shipping them to Calhan, Colo., near which…
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