Roberts v. Saint Louis & San Francisco Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.;

On the night of September 12, 1921, Frank Earl *750Fergus was acting as night agent of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company, at the station of Paola. With him in the depot was the night telegraph operator, E. E. Belman.

The depot is about half a block south of a street extending east and west and crossing the railway tracks which extend north and south. The depot platform extends northward to the street. The tracks are east of the depot. The first track east of the depot is the southbound main track; the next is the northbound main track;…