Kansas City Southern Ry. Co. v. Willsie
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United S'tates for the Western, District of Arkansas; Frank A. Youmans, Judge. Action by J. W. Willsie against the Kansas City Southern Railway Company. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
CARLAND, Circuit Judge.
The parties to this writ of error will be named as at the trial. On September 25, 1913, the plaintiff walked from his home in Little River county, Ark., to a station on defendant’s road called Winthrop-, a distance of about four miles, for the purpose of taking passage on a local freight train for Wade, another station on a branch line of defendant. Plaintiff arrived at Winthrop station about 9 o’clock a. m., at about the time the train was running up. The train was standing at the middle of the depot. The caboose was south of the depot. The train was a local freight…
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