Stout v. Sioux City & P. R. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska
This is an action by an infant [Harry G. Stout], by his next friend, to recover damages for a personal injury, caused by the turntable of the defendant. The material facts appear in the charge of the court to the jury, given oelow.
1Opinion of the Court
DILLON. Circuit Judge
(charging jury). 1. This is both a novel and important case. The injury for which this action is brought happened in the town of Blair, in this state, on the 29th day of March, 1809. The plaintiff was then a boy of the tender age of six years and two or three months. The undisputed testimony shows that the totvn of Blair was, at that time, a new place, had been recently laid off, *184and contained a population of about one hundred people. On the plat of the town of Blair is a tract of land of variable width, extending almost the entire length of the plat, owned and used by…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Brown v. European & North American Railway Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1870
- Stout v. Sioux City & Pacific R. R.United States Circuit Court · 1881
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- Fusselman v. Yellowstone Valley Land & Irrigation Co.Montana Supreme Court · 1917
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