Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Rld. v. Retford
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Lyon District Court. Retford sued the Railroad Company, and recovered judgment at the March Term 1875, of the district court. The Railroad Company brings the case here on error. The facts, and the proceedings in the court below, sufficiently appear in the subjoined opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
statement of the case. Retford brought suit against the plaintiff in error to recover damages for permanent disability of body and mind, resulting from an injury received by him on May 20th 1873, while in the performance of his duty as baggage-man on one of the trains of the A. T. & Santa Fé R. R. Co., in being hurled from the car by coming in contact with a coal-chute, erected by the railroad company at a switch, or station, called Peterton, and which coal-chute defendant in error claimed was within six inches of where the cars 0£ £[ie…
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