St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. v. Wainwright
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District .of Arkansas.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
This was an action to recover for injuries sustained by the plaintiff below while he was in the act of entering a passenger train of the railway company at Keevil, Ark., with the purpose of becoming a passenger. The negligence charged against the defendant was that freight was piled upon the station platform too near the track, that the train was not stopped long enough to permit intending passengers to enter in safety, and that after the plaintiff had placed one foot upon the steps to the car, and when he was lifting the other thereto, the train was suddenly…
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