Gentry v. Davis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The action was for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant. Plaintiff recovered and the defendant appeals.

On November 8, 1918, plaintiff was a fireman on one of defendant’s locomotives approaching the Condon station, Labette county, Kansas, from the south. At the station, headed southward, was another locomotive. It was night and the headlight of the locomotive standing at the station shone along the rails southward. When ' the engine, on which plaintiff was fireman, was distant two and a…