Wasmer v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

— This is a suit to recover ■damages the plaintiff alleges he sustained by reason of an injury inflicted upon his wife by the negligence of the defendant. The plaintiff’s wife was struck and injured by one of defendant’s freight trains on the 17th day of March, 1908, at or near Crystal avenue in Kansas City, Missouri.

The plaintiff m his petition alleges in one count that the injury was the result of defendant’s failure to comply with an ordinance of the city regulating the speed of trains passing over its streets. In the second count of his petition the plaintiff seeks to recover on the…