Caruthers v. Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad

This was an action for damages for bodily injuries negligently inflicted by the plaintiff in error, upon the line of the Fort Scott, Southeastern & Memphis Railway, many years ago. The facts were presented to the court below in an agreed statement, and in other documentary forms. Summarized, they are that the Fort Scott, Southeastern & Memphis Railway Company and the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Company were Kansas corporations, and the first named company leased its line to the one last named, under the following instrument:

“ This Agreement, Made this ninth day of December, a.…