Merz v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

This is an action for damages by the father of a minor child, who was run over by one of the locomotives of defendant, thereby losing his arm. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,703.

Another action by the boy himself for the damages occasioned to him by the same injury was appealed to this court, and the judgment affirmed at the last March term. 13 Mo. App. 589.

Counsel for appellant states in his brief that this case rests entirely upon different proof from that in the boy’s own case. I have read the entire testimony,in both cases, and I think that the testimony on…