Pyle v. Clark
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the 'Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Utah. These were actions at law, brought, the one by George M. Pyle, and the other by A. E. Wright, against S. II. H. Clark and others, receivers of the Union Pacific Kailway Company, to recover damages for personal injuries.
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In Error to the 'Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Utah. These were actions at law, brought, the one by George M. Pyle, and the other by A. E. Wright, against S. II. H. Clark and others, receivers of the Union Pacific Kailway Company, to recover damages for personal injuries. The court directed a verdict in favor of defendants in the case of Pyle, who assigns that ruling as error; and the case of Wright having been submitted to tbe jury, and a verdict returned in his favor, the defendants assign as error the submission of his case to the jury.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon on a clear, still day in July, 1895, George 31. Pyle and A. E. Wright were riding west along Second North street, in Salt Lake City, in a covered wagon, drawn by two horses. They were sitting on the front seat of the wagon, Pyle on the north side, and Wright on the south side, and the cover wras turned hack, so that they could see everywhere. Pyle owned the horses and wagon, and was driving the team, *746and Wright was riding with him. They were strangers in the city, but, when they were about 100 feet east of Second West street, they observed…
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