Legal Opinion

St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Elsing

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided May 6, 1913No. 2687PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Error from District Court, Hughes County; John. GarutherSj Judge. Action by John Elsing against the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

ROBERTSON, C.

This is an action for damages for personal injury received by the defendant in error while a passenger on a freight train belonging to the plaintiff in error. At the trial in the court below plaintiff recovered a judgment in the sum of $1,200. Defendant brings error and insists upon a reversal on several different specifications of error, but we need concern ourselves only with the third, which' assigns error of the court in giving to the jury instruction No. 5, which reads as follows:

“If you find from the evidence that, at the time of the alleged injury tp the…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Krieger v. Aurora, Elgin & Chicago RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1909
  2. Randall v. Northwestern Telegraph Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1882
  3. Bodie v. Charleston & Western Carolina Ry. Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1901
  4. McLamb v. Wilmington & Weldon RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1898
  5. Bolin v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1900

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Boies v. ColeArizona Supreme Court · 1965
  2. Julian v. Sinclair Oil & Gas Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1934
  3. City of Hugo v. NanceSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1913
  4. Missouri, O. & G. Ry. Co. v. ParkerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1915
  5. Muskogee Electric Traction Co. v. RichardsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1923

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