Ruhl v. Missouri Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
1Opinion of the Court
BARRETT, Commissioner.
On June 6, 1952, Mrs. Margaret Ruhl and her neighbor, Mrs. Younkman, were killed when a Missouri Pacific train struck a 1950 two-door Plymouth sedan on an ascending crossing near Hiawatha, Kansas. In this action against the railroad in Missouri Mrs. Ruhl’s husband has recovered a judgment of $1,000 for the destruction of his automobile and a judgment of $10,000 for the death of his wife. Upon this appeal the railroad concedes that there was evidence of its negligence in failing to signal and in permitting the growth of obscuring weeds and sunflowers, five to six feet in…
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2Cases cited13 opinions
- State Ex Rel. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. ShainSupreme Court of Missouri · 1937
- Wehe v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1916
- Kansas City-Leavenworth Railroad v. GallagherSupreme Court of Kansas · 1904
- Lohmann v. Wabash RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1954
- St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. WeaverSupreme Court of Kansas · 1886
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3Cited by6 opinions
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- Texas & Pacific Railway Company v. Mrs. Gladys Mayeaux LabordeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1958
- Younkman v. Missouri Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1957
- Atkinson v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1958
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