Taylor v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

The appeal is from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff rendered September 29,1922, in the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County, for $50,000, for personal injuries.

On February 20, 1921, the plaintiff, at the town of Lutesville in Bollinger County, took passage on one of the defendant’s trains for the purpose of going to Marquand. When the train stopped at Marquand the plaintiff in attempting to alight from the car slipped upon the steps and fell, incurring severe injury for which he sued. The train came north through Charleston, in Mississippi County; it had snowed the day before. Plain…