Rider v. Kansas City Terminal Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

HopKINS, J.:

Defendant appeals from a judgment of $2,800, awarded plaintiff by the district court of Wyandotte county on account of damages sustained through falling into a manhole.

Trial was to a jury. The principal question was as to whether or not plaintiff was bound by the release which he executed to the company. Plaintiff was a locomotive fireman for defendant at a salary of about $180 per month. • About 9 o’clock in the evening of March. 12, 1919, he stepped from his engine to assist the crew in taking water. He stepped on one edge of the cover or…