Sale v. Kurn

Respondents, plaintiffs below, filed this suit against appellants to recover $10,000 in damages for the death of their infant son.

Appellants are one J.M. Kurn and John G. Lonsdale, trustees in charge of, and operating the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company. A trial resulted in a verdict for appellants. A motion for new trial was sustained and defendants appealed. The reason set forth in the order granting a new trial was, that the trial court had erred in giving instructions requested by the defendants. The defendants, at the close of all the evidence, requested the trial court to give…