Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad v. Schroeder
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Butler District Court. This was an action brought in the district court of Butler county, on February 24,1887, by Jacob Schroeder against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad Company, to recover damages to the amount of $5,000, for alleged personal injuries.
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Error from Butler District Court. This was an action brought in the district court of Butler county, on February 24,1887, by Jacob Schroeder against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad Company, to recover damages to the amount of $5,000, for alleged personal injuries. On March 7, 1888, the plaintiff amended his petition, setting forth his cause or causes of action in two counts, the first of which reads as follows: “The plaintiff, for his cause of action against the defendant, says, that he has been in the employ of various railroad companies for 16 years last past, and that for the last…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This present action was commenced by Jacob Schroeder against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad Company for $5,000 as damages for personal injuries. It was tried in the court below upon the first count of the plaintiff’s amended petition and the defendant’s answer, and judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant for $3,000 and costs, and the defendant, as plaintiff in error, now complains. The evidence of the plaintiff below fairly tended to prove the allegations of that part of his amended petition…
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