De Maire v. Thompson

The plaintiff appeals from an order of the circuit court of Christian county sustaining the motion for new trial of the defendant-respondent trustee of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, in plaintiff-appellant’s suit for damages for personal injuries sustained while endeavoring, with the help of a co-employee, to close and latch the door of a sub-floor hopper on a railroad coal car at Cornell, Kansas. The jury had returned a verdict for $15,000 in favor of the appellant. Hence the appellate jurisdiction is in this court under Art. V, Sec. 3, Const. 1945.

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