Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Richardson

Appellee recovered a substantial judgment to compensate an injury -which he sustained as he was walking across the .tracks of the defendant railroad company in Bald Knob, along Elm Street, which crossed the tracks, when he stepped on a small rock or piece of gravel, which caused his ankle to turn and twist his knee in such a manner as to break the cartilage in his knee cap.

We copy from the record his statement as to the manner in which he'was injured: “When I got there (at the crossing), there was a gravel train, a work extra, that was on the crossing, and they had cut, I suppose, the Main…