Profit v. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Buchanan Circuit Court — Hon. W. K. James, Judge. (1) It is the duty of a father to watch over a child and guard it from danger and provide for its safety and welfare, and it is the duty of the child to submit to the government and control of its father.
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Appeal from Buchanan Circuit Court — Hon. W. K. James, Judge. (1) It is the duty of a father to watch over a child and guard it from danger and provide for its safety and welfare, and it is the duty of the child to submit to the government and control of its father. The child is entitled to the benefit of the father’s superintendence and protection, and is consequently subject to any disadvantages resulting from the exercise of that, parental control and authority which it is both the right and duty of the father to exert. Appellant was, therefore, entitled to go to the jury upon the question…
1Opinion of the Court
ELLISON, J.'
— This is an action for personal injury in which the plaintiff recovered judgment in the trial court. The injury was the result of an accident at a railroad crossing on *373a public road in Buchanan county. Plaintiff is an infant and at the time of the accident was about sixteen months old. Her father and mother with plaintiff and two other daughters, aged fourteen and sixteen years, respectively, were traveling in a two-horse wagon along the public road approaching the railroad tracks; the plaintiff was in her mother’s lap. One of defendant’s trains going at a rapid rate of speed,…
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- Atlanta & Charlotte Air-Line Rwy. Co. v. GravittSupreme Court of Georgia · 1894
- Chicago City Railway Co. v. WilcoxIllinois Supreme Court · 1891
- The Steamboat Clipper v. LoganOhio Supreme Court · 1849
- Boland v. Missouri RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1865
- Becke v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1890
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