St. Louis, I. M. & S. Ry. Co. v. Spencer
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court oí the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
About 9 o’clock in the forenoon, on the 2-ith day of May, 1894, Sarah Owen Spencer, the defendant in error, was a passenger in a Pullman car attached to a train of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company, the plaintiff in error, which was passing through the yard of that company at Texarkana, in the state of Arkansas. A switchman of the plaintiff in error carelessly threw a switch béfore the Pullman car had passed it, and this derailed the car, caused it to collide with a train of coal cars, smashed two of the windows on one side of the car, and, as the…
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