Groom v. Kavanagh
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal, from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — No». Franklin Ferris, Judge. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. The following instructions were-requested by the defendant and refused: “1. The court instructs the jury that under the pleadings and all the evidence, the plaintiff can not recover in this case and your verdict will be for defendant.
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Appeal, from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — No». Franklin Ferris, Judge. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. The following instructions were-requested by the defendant and refused: “1. The court instructs the jury that under the pleadings and all the evidence, the plaintiff can not recover in this case and your verdict will be for defendant. “2. The court instructs the jury that if they believe from the evidence that the plaintiff stepped on the street and in front of said runaway horses without looking or listening, or without trying to prevent coming in contact with them, then your verdict will be for…
1Opinion of the CourtGoode, J.
— The substance of the case on which •plaintiff obtained judgment for fifteen hundred dollars for personal injuries is, that she was struck by a team of runaway horses hitched to . a sleigh on one of the public streets of St. Louis and badly hurt. She charges in her petition that defendant carelessly left his team standing on' Dickson street without being fastened, hitched, guarded or in any way attended so as to prevent it from running away, and that while plaintiff was passing west over O’Fallon street and in the act of passing from the south to the north side thereof, at or near its…
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- Donohue v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1886
- Petty v. Hannibal & St. Joseph RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1885
- Baker v. Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1894
- Jennings v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1892
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