Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Young
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Leavenworth District Court. At the March Term 1876 of the district court, Young recovered judgment against the Railroad Company for $10,000, for the loss of his right hand, which was injured and crushed while he was trying to couple cars on defendant’s railroad, at Lawrence, in September 1867. Young was a brakeman, in the employ of defendant company, and he alleges that the accident happened through the negligence of one Frank Crane, an engineer, who was wholly…
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Error from Leavenworth District Court. At the March Term 1876 of the district court, Young recovered judgment against the Railroad Company for $10,000, for the loss of his right hand, which was injured and crushed while he was trying to couple cars on defendant’s railroad, at Lawrence, in September 1867. Young was a brakeman, in the employ of defendant company, and he alleges that the accident happened through the negligence of one Frank Crane, an engineer, who was wholly incompetent and unfit, and that the Railroad Company had knowledge of such incompetency and unfitness. The Railroad…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
This action has been pending in the courts for nearly ten years, and the injury for which the damages were assessed occurred on the 19th of September 1867. The case was before this court at the July Term 1871, and is reported in 8 Kas. 658. On its return to the court below the parties filed new pleadings. The cause was tried the second time on 6th March 1876, and resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant in error for $10,000. The railway company again invokes the aid of this court to reverse the judgment against it.
Young was in…
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