Berry v. Kansas City
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Bourbon District Court. ON December 24, 1887, Wm. Y. Berry was an engineer of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, which company at that time was operating the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway.
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Error from Bourbon District Court. ON December 24, 1887, Wm. Y. Berry was an engineer of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, which company at that time was operating the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway. He ran an engine from Sedalia, Mo., to Fort Scott, Kas., and while on one of his trips he was killed in Fort Scott, Bourbon county, in this state, at a crossing by a train of the Kansas-City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Company, which in April, 1888, was consolidated with other railroads under the laws of Kansas, and constituted and became the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
iloRTON, C. J.:
We are called upon to review the action of the trial court upon the ease-made. It is insisted by the counsel of the railroad company that the petition in error should be dismissed, because the testimony produced upon the trial is not preserved in the record, and therefore that this court cannot determine whether the trial court committed any error in directing a verdict for the company. The testimony is not before us, and, if the case-made did not con*767tain statements explanatory of the rulings of the trial court, then, upon the…
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