Jackson v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

Plaintiff brought suit for damages arising out of personal injuries sustained by him wrhen caught between two of defendant’s trains running in opposite directions on defendant’s tracks and in its yards within the city of Poplar Bluff, Missouri. The petition alleged that on July 12, 1929, plaintiff was walking between defendant’s main track and one of its side tracks at a point on defendant’s right of way habitually and constantly used for many years by pedestrians as a footpath. The negligence alleged is that defendant’s agents and servants in charge of its north bound passenger train,…