Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Baker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Sarah E. Baker was killed by a train of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company in a street of Olathe. An administrator recovered a judgment on this account, from which the company prosecutes error. The special findings, supplemented by the general verdict, may be deemed to have established these facts:

Mrs. Baker was 71 years old. She had had three slight strokes of paralysis, two manifesting themselves in her hand and one in her face, but her hearing and sight were in good condition for one of her age. Her home was in the middle of a…