Robinson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

This is an appeal from an instructed verdict against appellant, and a consequent judgment dismissing her complaint.

The suit was instituted by her father, as next friend, in the circuit court of Little River County, against appellee, to recover damages for burns received .by her while walking over a pile of slack coal and cinders on its right-of-way near a pathway used by the public in crossing its railroad tracks. The gist of the complaint is that appellee’s employees negligently set fire to the interior of the pile of slack coal, which continued to burn and create a cavity therein, leaving a…