St. Louis, I. M. & S. Ry. Co. v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Wagoner County; Chas. Bagg, Judge. Action by Elzora Lewis against the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
THACKER, C.
Plaintiff in error will be designated as defendant, and defendant in error as plaintiff, in accord with their respective titles in the trial court.
' Plaintiff, a healthy negro woman, about 39 years of age, and the mother of two children, on January 8, 1909, when it was very cold and “spitting snow,” accompanied by her husband, drove from her home, a distance of about four or five miles away, in an open buggy, with a lantern or hot rock at her feet and well wrapped, to defendant’s station at Inola, in Rogers county, to take its train to Wagoner, and go thence to Muskogee,…
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