Legal Opinion

Baker v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided November 8, 1913No. 18,163Published

Appeal from Bourbon district court; 'John C. Cannon, judge.

1Per curiam

Action to recover for injury and loss sustained by appellee, whose horse was frightened by *682the negligent operation of a railroad tricycle at a public crossing. Some of the conditions existing at the crossing, and the circumstances of the accident, were stated on the former appeal. (Baker v. Railway Co., 85 Kan. 263, 116 Pac. 816.) In effect the jury found that Knight, who was operating the tricycle, saw and appreciated that the horse had become frightened and unmanageable, and yet he recklessly ran the machine down towards the horse, and that if he had stopped 'when he observed the fright and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Baker v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1911

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