State Ex Rel. St. Joseph Belt Railway Co. v. Shain

Certiorari to the judges of the Kansas City Court of Appeals bringing up the record of that court in Lyons v. St. Joseph Belt Railway Company, decided in June, 1935, and reported in 84 S. W. (2d) 933. The defendant railway company, appellant there, is relator here.

The plaintiff Lyons had been in the service of the relator as a roundhouseman, roundhouse foreman, locomotive fireman and locomotive engineer for about thirty years. He was discharged in 1932, and sued the relator in the Circuit Court of Buchanan County for $2448 actual damages and $10,000 punitive damages for its alleged wrongful,…