Sethman v. Union Depot Bridge & Terminal Railroad

Plaintiff’s automobile, while upon defendant’s electric street railway tracks, on the Armonr Bridge across the Missouri river at Kansas City, was run into and injured by one of defendant’s street cars coming from behind and colliding with it. He brought this suit to recover the damages done to the automobile. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, upon which judgment was rendered and defendant has appealed.

As submitted, the case was bottomed upon the humanitarian rule, and the issue the jury was called upon to decide was whether, while said automobile (being operated by plaintiff’s…