Lang v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company

BARRETT, C.

On October 2, 1951, about eight o’clock in the evening, the plaintiff, Conrad Lang, was struck by the Frisco’s westbound passenger train, the “Meteor,” as he walked across the railroad’s tracks at Fourth and Pacific Streets in Pacific. To recover damages for his resulting personal injuries Mr. Lang instituted this action against the railroad, and he has recovered a judgment, for $18,359.00. His right to recover was submitted upon the hypothesis that the railroad was negligent in -that as he walked across the tracks he was oblivious of the train’s approach, came into a position of…