St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Robinson

This is an appeal from a verdict and judgment awarding appellee damages for a personal injury resulting from the striking of his left hand by one of appellant’s locomotive engines. The cause was tried upon the sole issue that the railway company had failed to keep the efficient lookout required by the statute, which, if it had been kept, would have averted appellee’s injury. No other question of negligence was submitted to the jury.

The testimony was to the following effect. Appellee, an elderly man, was in Van Burén on the 18th day of February, 1937, and wished to return to his home at…