Hornsby v. Eddy
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to tin» Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. This was an intervening petition by John E. Hornsby filed against George A. Eddy and Harrison 0. Cross, as receivers of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, for damages for personal injury. The trial court sustained a demurrer to the petition, and petitioner brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Til A YE R. Dist rict Judge.
The sole question presented by the record in (his case is whether, tinder the latvs of Kansas, a railway employe who is injured by the carelessness of a fellow employe, while at work in the line of Ms duty on a railroad that is at the time in the hands of a receiver, may have an allowance against tlie property of ihe railway company, that is in the custody of ihe receiver, for the injuries so sustained. The statute under which this question arises was enacted in Kansas in 1874, and is as follows:
*462“Every railroad company organized or doing business in this state…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Turner v. Cross and Eddy, ReceiversTexas Supreme Court · 1892
- Henderson v. WalkerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1875
- Eddy v. LafayetteCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1892
- Union Trust Co. v. ThomasonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1881
- Beeson v. BusenbarkSupreme Court of Kansas · 1890
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- Sullivan v. HustisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
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