Richmond v. Missouri, Pacific Railway Co.

The plaintiff’s action is to recover damages for injuries received from being thrown down while in a Wabash railroad car when other cars were coupled on to it in the defendant’s, yards at. Kansas City, Missouri, on the 20th day of May, 1900'. The plaintiff was accompanying a car of household goods, farm utensils, and live stock belonging to his mother and was standing at the time of his injury.

*423The contract of shipment was entered into between Mrs. Richmond, his mother, and the Wabash Railroad Company, which provided that said railroad' company would transport the goods and "stock from…