Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Taylor
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma. .Action at law by Charles E. Taylor against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by the next of kin of James E. Taylor, deceased, to recover damages for his death in a railroad accident. The plaintiff recovered judgment in the Circuit Court and the railway company sued out this writ of error.
Taylor shipped a car load of household effects, farming implements, and live stock from Nebraska to Bliss, Okl. At Kansas City, Mo., where the defendant company received the car, an emigrant outfit contract was executed permitting Taylor to accompany the shipment without charge. It recited that travel by freight trains or in freight cars was…
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