Woods v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

TBIMBlLE, J. —

Plaintiff, in attempting to open a gate leading into one of the pens in defendant’s stockyards at its shipping station of Foster, Missouri, was seriously and painfully injured by the gate falling upon him. He brought this suit for damages. The petition charged that defendant had allowed the gatepost to remain in a rotten condition'whereby the top hinge became loose rendering the gate dangerous and unsafe, which defendant knew, or of which it could have known by the exercise of. ordinary care, and which gate defendant was in duty bound to keep in reasonably safe repair. A trial…