Brown v. Hannibal & St. Joseph R. R.

— This was an action for damages which plaintiff alleged that he sustained from’ an injury received by him in consequence of being pushed off the platform of defendant’s car, by the conductor of the train, while the train was in motion. The evidence shows that in July, 1872, the plaintiff arrived at Chillicothe, after the defendant’s passenger train going east had passed that point, and being anxious to reach Brookfield, went to the depot and inquired of a telegraph operator in defendant’s employment, when the next train would go east. The operator informed him that there would be no train…