Hoffmeier v. Kansas City-Leavenworth Railroad

The record in this case presents the proceedings in an action for damages for personal injuries claimed negligently to have been inflicted. The decision depended upon the probative force of facts. The .trial court dispensed with the service of the jury and drew the definitive conclusion itself.

The plaintiff was the conductor of an electric street-railway car. The car was without an aisle or other passageway lengthwise through it, and the conductor was obliged to perform his duties from a foot-board running the length of the car on the outside. The electric current was conveyed to the car by a…