Meyer v. Midland Pacific Railroad
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to District Court for Otoe County. The plaintiff was a girl of three and a half years of age; and the defendants were the Midland Pacific Railroad Company, and the members of the firm of J. N. Convers & Company, contractors for building the railroad company’s railroad.
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Error to District Court for Otoe County. The plaintiff was a girl of three and a half years of age; and the defendants were the Midland Pacific Railroad Company, and the members of the firm of J. N. Convers & Company, contractors for building the railroad company’s railroad. On the 21st of May, 1870, while the contractors were constructing, operating, and had exclusive possession and control of the road, a construction-train ran over and killed a brother of the plaintiff,-about two years old, and seriously injured the plaintiff, so that it was necessary to amputate her leg. The accident…
1Opinion of the CourtLake, J.
This is a proceeding in error, brought to reverse the judgment of the District Court for Otoe County, rendered in an action instituted by the defendant in error to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by her in consequence of the carelessness of the plaintiffs in error in running a train of cars over said company’s railroad within the corporate limits of Nebraska City.
The errors complained of may all be included under three general heads: first, errors of the Court in the instructions given to the jury on its own motion; second, errors in refusing to charge as…
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