Sykes v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. William Zachriiz, Judge. STATEMENT OE. THE CASE. The plaintiff is an employee of the St. Louis Oar Wheel Company, whose place of business is in the city of St. Louis. He was injured while engaged in unloading a car containing goods consigned to the car wheel company.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. William Zachriiz, Judge. STATEMENT OE. THE CASE. The plaintiff is an employee of the St. Louis Oar Wheel Company, whose place of business is in the city of St. Louis. He was injured while engaged in unloading a car containing goods consigned to the car wheel company. The shipment was from Kansas City to St. Louis over the Kansas City, Eort Scott & Memphis Bailroad to Nichols Junction in Greene county, and from thei£ to the city of St. Louis over the road owned by the defendant. There were separate waybills, one from Kansas City to Nichols…
1Opinion of the CourtGoode, J.
The second instruction referred to in the statement, authorized a verdict against the railway company if the plaintiff was hurt on a defective car negligently furnished by it, while engaged in hauling freight to and from the premises of the car wheel company, on cars supplied by the former company, but unloaded by the latter, the business being conducted for the mutual benefit of both. The two instructions were apparently prepared and given from an opinion that the facts bring this case within the scope of Roddy v. Missouri Pacific Railway Company, 104 Mo. 234. A careful comparison of the two…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Stephens v. Hannibal & St. Joseph RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1888
- Roddy v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1891
- Heizer v. Kingsland & Douglass Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1892
- Moon v. Northern Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
- Lake Superior Iron Co. v. EricksonMichigan Supreme Court · 1878
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- Bahr v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
- St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. FrittsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1908
- Rooney v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1926
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