Harlan v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Jippeal from Randolph County Cir cu.it Court. Harty vs. Central R. R. Co.,42 N. Y. 468 ; O’Donnell vs. Prov. R. R. Co., 6 R. I. 211; Sbearm. «fe.Redf. Negl., § 485 ; Whart.
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Jippeal from Randolph County Cir cu.it Court. Harty vs. Central R. R. Co.,42 N. Y. 468 ; O’Donnell vs. Prov. R. R. Co., 6 R. I. 211; Sbearm. «fe.Redf. Negl., § 485 ; Whart. Negl. § 384 ; Artz vs. Chicago, R. I. & P. R. R., 34 Iowa, 160 ; Havens vs. Erie Railway, 41 N. Y. 296 ; Ernst vs. Hudson River Railroad Co., 39 N. Y. 61; 35 Id. 9; Wilcox vs. Rome, W. & O. Railroad Co., 39 N. Y. 358 ; Baxter vs. Troy & Boston R. R. Co. 41 N. Y. 502 ; Nicholson vs; Erie Rl’y Co., 41 N. Y. 525; Grippen vs. New-York Central Railroad Co., 40 N. Y. 34 ; Gonzales vs. New York & Harlem Railroad Co., 38 N. Y. 440…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
The petition in this case was under the second section of the damage act, for the negligent killing of the plaintiffs husband by a locomotive of the defendant.
*482The answer of the defendant, after denying the allegations of the petition, set up as a defense that the plaintiff’s own negligence was.the cause of the disaster.
The evidence in the case, in which there was no conflict, established the following state of facts: The deceased, who lived in the town of Moberly, was passing from the east side of the railroad, on a frequented path leading over the tracks', in the middle of a clear day in…
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