St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Posten
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from. District Court, Creek County; W. L. Barman, Judge. Action by Anna Posten against the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtDunn, J.
This case presents error from the district court of Creek county. Under the pleadings and the evidence, it is made to appear that the defendant, on March 14, 1908, owned and operated a line of railway between Oklahoma City and Sa-pulpa, Okla.; that W. H. Posten, who was the husband of plaintiff, was a United States mail clerk, and, as such, was engaged in the performance of his duties on one of defendant’s passenger trains. The train on which he was riding was derailed about 210 feet west of a place where the track runs over a wooden trestle spanning a gorge or a creek. The engine ran onto…
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