Southern Kansas Ry. Co. of Texas v. Shinn

Appellee Shinn, the plaintiff below, sued the appellant for damages alleged to have occurred on account of being struck by overhanging telephone wires across the track and right of way of the appellant railway company while he was in the discharge of his duties as head brakeman, standing upon the top of one of appellant's box cars in a train passing through the town of Higgins, also negativing, in his petition, contributory negligence on his part, and charging negligence in several different phases by appellant railway company. On the merits, the appellant railway company, after a general…