Lowther v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff when she stepped upon a rusty nail on defendant's depot platform in Webster Groves, Missouri. She recovered judgment for $3000, and defendant appeals.

There is no question raised here as to the pleadings, and therefore it becomes unnecessary to refer to them in detail.

On the morning of the eighteenth of August, 1921, plaintiff went to defendant's station at about 10:30 o'clock for the purpose of boarding a train there to come into the city of St. Louis. There was a train due there at about that time. The depot contained…