Tennis v. Inter-State Consolidated Rapid Transit Railway Co.

Opinion by

GreeN, C.:

This action was brought by Henry N. Tennis, as administrator of the estate of John S. Tennis, deceased, in the district court of Wyandotte county, to recover the sum of $10,000 damages, on account of the alleged negligent killing of the decedent. The record discloses that John S. Tennis was killed under the following circumstances: On the afternoon of August 30, 1887, he was walking on the railroad track of the defendant in a westerly direction, in Kansas City, some two hundred feet from a coal chute, where engines took on coal. At the point in question, there was a double…