Straus v. Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad

In this action the plaintiff claimed damages in the sum of $5,000 for injuries received by him in attempting to alight, at a way station on the defendant’s road, from a train of the defendant on which he was a passenger. The petition alleges in substance, that immediately upon the stopping of said train at Pickering station, which was plaintiff’s destination, the plaintiff, with all convenient haste, but in the exercise of due care, attempted, to leave the train, and while in the act of stepping from the train upon the platform at the depot, and before he-had sufficient time to get upon said…