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

This is an action against a carrier for personal injuries to a passenger, alleged to have been caused by its negligence. The negligence is charged in the petition in the following language:

“Plaintiff states that the defendant failed and neglected its said duties, so that by reason of such negligence plaintiff was injured in the following manner and particulars, to-wit:. . On the early morning of September 1, 1922, at about 3:50 a. m., when defendant’s said passenger train No. 805, carrying plaintiff'therein as a railway postal clerk, reached and ran upon a certain trestle near Starland,…