Burham v. St. Louis & I. M. Railroad

This suit was brought ,to recover damages for injuries alleged by plaintiff to have resulted from the negligence of defendant’s employees, in coming in collision with plaintiff’s wagon whilst crossing the track .of defendant’s railroad. The plaintiff was driving his wagon down Fillmore Street in Carondelet, or South St. Louis, /towards the river, and when partly on the track of the railroad, the locomotive, which was *339going at considerable speed, struck thé wagon, destroyed it, and inflicted very serious wounds on the plaintiff, disabling him, to some extent, for life.

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