Hart v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad

This action was commenced by Hannah Hart and Leopold Hart, the parents of Nathan Hart, who fell from a passenger-train operated by the defendant and was killed.

The facts developed at the trial are substantially as follow: The deceased got upon the train at Kansas City, Mo. He had been a traveling salesman for about fifteen years, and was familiar with railroad travel generally, and with this train in particular. His brother was with him upon this occasion; they were going to Springfield, Mo. The-train was what is known as a “full, or solid, vestibule train,” which means that the platform of…