Honeycutt v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

BARRETT, Commissioner.

Raymond Honeycutt, a farm laborer, and his wife, Bertha, have been awarded $21,-500.00 damages against the Missouri Pacific Railroad for his personal injuries and her loss of services. Ray was employed by the TP Company and on June 15, 1966, was engaged together with Niles Forbes in harvesting the oat crop on the Cloney farm 2.3 miles north of Sedalia. Forbes was operating the combine and Ray was hauling the threshed grain to storage in a wagon attached to a farm tractor. The railroad’s Lexington Branch, since abandoned, runs through the Cloney farm and affording access…