Missouri, O. & G. Ry. Co. v. Overmyre
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from Superior Court, Muskogee County; ' Farrar L. McCain, Judge. Action by A. S. Overmyre, administrator of the estate of Guy E. Overmyre, against the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtSharp, J.
On March 19, 1912, Guy E. Overmyre, the deceased, aged 20 years, was in the employ of the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Company, as a hostler’s helper, at the shops and in the yards of the defendant company at Muskogee. While in the discharge of his duties on said day, on the tender attached to engine 22B, controlled by the hostler, F. M. Scott, and at a time when said engine and tender were being backed into the roundhouse, the said Overmyre was struck and killed by engine 219, at the time standing over the cinder pit on an adjoining track in the yards of said company. In an action to…
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