Furnish v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Bates Circuit Court. — Hon. D. A. DeArmond, Judge. This action was brought by William S. Furnish to recover damages sustained by him in the matter of expenses incurred in medical attention and nursing, and in being deprived of the companionship, comfort, solace and society of his wife, who sustained injuries while a passenger on one of appellant’s cars.
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Appeal from Bates Circuit Court. — Hon. D. A. DeArmond, Judge. This action was brought by William S. Furnish to recover damages sustained by him in the matter of expenses incurred in medical attention and nursing, and in being deprived of the companionship, comfort, solace and society of his wife, who sustained injuries while a passenger on one of appellant’s cars. It appeared that in February, 1886, she took passage on an accommodation train consisting of a locomotive and tender, a baggage car and two passenger cars, at Independence, Missouri, to go to Kansas City ; that, when the train…
1Opinion of the CourtBarclay, J.
— The evidence and instructions in this' action, relating to the issue of defendant’s negligence toward Mrs. Furnish as a passenger upon its railway, .are in all material particulars identical with the evidence and instructions discussed in Furnish v. Railroad, ante, p. 438; 13 S. W. Rep. 1044. So far as concerns that branch of this case it is unnecessary to reiterate the rulings then announced.
Several other errors are now assigned, however, involving points not presented in that action but peculiar to this.
II. Defendant claims that the trial court erred by instructing the jury to allow…
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