Adams v. Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Grundy Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Woods, Judge. (1) All the errors assigned affecting the defendant railroad company may be summed into one, the judgment must be reversed as to that defendant because this court will take judicial notice of the proclamations of the President and orders of the Director General as well as the Federal Control Act and the Transportation Act.
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Appeal from Grundy Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Woods, Judge. (1) All the errors assigned affecting the defendant railroad company may be summed into one, the judgment must be reversed as to that defendant because this court will take judicial notice of the proclamations of the President and orders of the Director General as well as the Federal Control Act and the Transportation Act. These show the defendant railroad company was not operating the road at the time of the injury to plaintiff October 28, 1918, and, therefore, no judgment can be entered against it. Nor. Pac. Ry. Co. v. State, 250…
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Grundy County. Suit for personal injuries. The railroad company and William G. McAdoo, Director General of Railroads, were defendants when the petition was filed November 19, 1918.
The petition alleged that on October 28, 1918, plaintiff was in the employ of defendants as a common laborer with a section-crew engaged in repairing the tracks of defendants at Knox City, Missouri. That he, on that date, lost his left eye, because one James, a fellow-servant working with him, attempted to drive a spike into a tie and "negligently struck at said spike and negligently…
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