Boltinghouse v. Thompson

This is a suit for damages prosecuted by Martha S. Boltinghouse joined by her husband, J. F. Boltinghouse, against Robert High Thompson, Mason Foster, Louis Foster, John Casparis, Henry Sehmelphening, A. S. Clayton, and Oscar Clayton. This is the second appeal; the first being reported in 291 S. W. 573. The grounds of negligence were that defendants in error were engaged in moving, leveling, and repairing a schoolhouse near a public road, and had stretched two cables across the road in the furtherance of their work, that they gave no warnings, and Mrs. Boltinghouse, passing along the road…