Southern Kansas Railway Co. v. Croker

Opinion by

Simpson, C.:

Suit to recover damages for personal injuries received by the defendant in error in the line of his employment as a section hand of the Southern Kansas Railroad Company, commenced on the 12th day of July, 1886. Tried at the March term, 1887, of the district court of Allen county, resulting in a judgment in favor of the defendant in error for $2,654.88.

The defendant in error, Walter Croker, was employed as a section hand by the railroad company in August, 1885. ■ He is a young man about twenty-two years of age, and before his'employment by the plaintiff in error had never…