Lynch v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. James G-ibson, Judge. (1) The court below erred in giving plaintiff’s 'instruction 4 and other conflicting instructions, and in refusing defendant’s instruction 7. Thomas v..
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. James G-ibson, Judge. (1) The court below erred in giving plaintiff’s 'instruction 4 and other conflicting instructions, and in refusing defendant’s instruction 7. Thomas v.. Babb, 45 Mo. 384; Goetz v. Railroad, 50 Mo. 472; Henschen ■v. O’Bannon, 56 Mo. 289; Simmons v. Carrier, 60 Mo. •581; State v. Simms, 68 Mo. 305; Frederick v. Allgaier, •88 Mo. 598; Spohn v. Railroad, 101 Mo. 417. (2) The court erred in giving plaintiff’s instruction 6, and in refusing defendant’s instructions 10 and 14. State v. .Hecox, 83 Mo. 531; Barr v. Armstrong, 56 Mo. 577;…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
On the fourth day of July, 1888, Richard Lynch, a boy between ten and eleven years of •age, residing with his widowed mother in Kansas City, Missouri, within one block of Main street, the principal thoroughfare of that city, was given a nickel with which to buy himself-a “milk shake,” and was permitted by his mother, the plaintiff in this action, to go unattended to Main street to make his purchase. The defendant was operating a street horse-car railroad on said street at the time, by virtue of a city ordinance. The ordinance required the defendant to have bells on all of its teams hauling…
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