Klutts v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

This is a suit to recover damages for alleged personal injuries sustained by plaintiff in consequence of a train of defendant’s cars, on which plaintiff was a passenger, being precipitated over an embankment of said road. The controversy is in relation to the extent of plaintiff’s injury, and his alleged contributory negligence after he was injured, whereby it was aggravated, the defendant insisting and having introduced evidence tending to prove that plaintiff* had imprudently exposed himself, and failed to procure proper medical attention after he received the injury; defendant also…