Smith v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Seminole County; Tom D. McKeown, Judge. Action by Mary Smith, widow, and others against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, for wrongful death. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
HARRISON, C.
The deceased, Charles IT. Smith, was a porter on a Rock Island passenger train running from Amarillo, Téx., to Shawnee, Okla. It is alleged in the petition that on the night of the 14th of December, 1907, at between one and two o’clock a. m. of such date, just as the train was pulling into the town of Choctaw, the deceased, in the performance of his duty as porter in attempting to open the door of the vestibule on one of the coaches preparatory to the alighting of the passengers, fell out of the train, breaking both of his legs, and sustaining other injuries, from which…
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