Langan v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

Error to St. Louis Court of Appeals. Taking into consideration the fact that the train was not in sight when plaintiff’ reached the platform, and that the engineer ran the train into the station at the rate of twelve or fifteen miles an hour, and at an unusual rate of speed, so fast that many of the witnesses, who had often seen it come in before, thought that it was not going to stop at the station, where a large crowd had gathered, and that another train was approaching plaintiff from the oppo-' site direction, ringing its bell and likely to attract the attention of persons at the station,…