Sewell v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Wyandotte court of common pleas; William G. Holt, judge.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mason, J.:
Jefferson D. Sewell, a messenger of the Wells-Fargo Express Company, while engaged in that service was killed in a wreck on the road of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company. His widow, Emma M. Sewell, brought an action against the railway company, alleging that its negligence caused the death. The case was submitted upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appeared that the express company and the railway company had entered into a contract by which the former assumed all risk of injury to its employees and agreed to hold…
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