Albright v. Louisiana & Missouri River Railroad

Respondent, as plaintiff, recovered a judgment for $3,000.00 as damages for personal injuries due to a fall from a footbridge along a sidewalk on defendant’s right of way. On appeal the St. Louis Court of Appeals reversed the judgment. [189 S. W. (2d) 665.] On respondent’s application we have brought the case to this court for review, and, although the application is based solely on alleged conflict with our previous decisions, we will determine the case as on original'appeal. [Mo. Const. Art. 5, sec. 10; Supreme Court Rule 2.06.]

Liberty Street in Mexico, Missouri, is sixty feet wide, runs…