Thompson, Trustees v. Galion Iron Works Mfg. Co.

This action was brought by plaintiff, Iron Works, against the defendants, Frank A. Thompson and J. M. Kurn, trustees for St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company, bankrupt, to recover damages for the destruction, by one of defendants’ trains, of a motor grader owned by plaintiff, and leased by it to Muskogee county at the time the accident occurred. The case was tried to a jury and at the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence defendants’ demurred to the evidence, which demurrer was by the court overruled. Defendants refused to put on any evidence and rested their case, whereupon the case was…