Southern Kansas Railway Co. v. Gorsuch
Supreme Court of Kansas
M'ror from Coffey District Court. Action to recover damages for personal injuries. Judgment, for plaintiff, Gorsuch, at the January term, 1889. The defendant Railway Company brings the case here. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Strang, C.:
Action for damages in two counts, begun in the district court of Coffey county, May 2,1888. In his first count the plaintiff below alleges that on the 1st day of September, 1887, he accompanied some stock which he shipped at Waverly, in Coffey county, for Kansas City, over the road of the plaintiff company, riding in the caboose of the freight train on a stock contract; that the train to which the caboose in which he was riding was attached was side-tracked at a station called “ Gardner,” and while standing on the said side-track another train ran in on the side-track…
2Cited by1 opinion
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