Kansas City Southern Ry. Co. v. McKenzie

Grieein Smith, Chief Justice.

Dennis McKenzie was eleven years of age when on July 9th, 1953, a railroad signal torpedo exploded, causing injuries that necessitated removal of his right eye.1 The railway company has appealed from a judgment for $1,500.

Although the McKenzies were residents of Scott county when the suit was filed, they had formerly lived at Heavener, Oklahoma, where the railroad company maintains switching and supply yards approximately three miles in length, and wide enough to. accommodate thirteen tracks extending generally in a north-south direction. Some of the tracks are…