Hyder Ex Rel. Hyder v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

This is a suit for damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment in the sum of $5,000 and defendant railway company has appealed.

Plaintiff was injured while in a buggy which was struck by one of defendant railway company’s trains on the 16th day of October, 1922, at a highway crossing of said company’s tracks near Lawson, Missouri. The train was running at the rate of thirty miles per hour. Plaintiff, together with several other small boys, the oldest of whom was eleven years of age, was coming home from school. When they were nearing said defendant’s tracks a…