Carson v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiffs sued the defendant for the death of their twelve-year-old son who was killed at Garden City. Although no witness saw the main incidents of this accident, it seems that the boy must have climbed upon the side of a freight car, and that his foot had been caught, and that he had fallen off or had attempted to jump off. The car was part of a long freight train moving westward. When first seen, the boy’s foot was caught in the angle of the iron frame which connects the set of wheels or truck at the front end of the freight car, and…