St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Devaney

This was an action instituted by Mrs. Cleopatra Devaney, the plaintiff below, to recover damages for personal injuries which she sustained while a passenger upon defendant’s local freight train. She alleged that the defendant ran some lumber cars with great and unusual force and violence against the caboose in which she was riding as a passenger, and knocked her out of the seat in which she was sitting on to the floor, and thereby greatly and seriously injured her; that her arm was broken at the wrist, and her back and spine wrenched, and from these injuries she has sustained a well-defined…