Southern Kansas Railway Co. v. Hinsdale
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Allen District Court. This case was tried by a jury, at the January Term, 1886? of the district court of Allen county.
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Error from Allen District Court. This case was tried by a jury, at the January Term, 1886? of the district court of Allen county. There was a verdict and judgment for the defendant in error for $525. Special questions of fact were submitted to the jury, and answers returned, as follows: “1. Did the defendant, at the time of the injuries complained of in plaintiff’s petition, have any regulations for the government and management of its freight trains whereby passengers could not be carried upon such trains without tickets, passes, or stock contracts? Ans.: Not to knowledge of plaintiff. “ 2.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
A. M. Hinsdale brought his action against the Southern Kansas Railway Company, to recover damages for being wrongfully ejected from a freight train. On March 27, 1885, being in the city of Fort Scott and having business to transact that day at Garnett, as a special agent of the Orient Insurance Company, he went over the Fort Scott road in the morning to Iola, and then proceeded to the depot of the Southern Kansas road, where he got aboard the caboose about three-and-a-half o’clock in the afternoon, intending to go to Garnett; he had with…
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