St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Young

Appellee brought this suit in the Craighead Circuit Court against appellant, alleging that, in July, 1923, he approached the defendant’s track nearNettleton on horseback, intending to cross the track, but a passenger train had stopped at the station, and the engine and part of the train obstructed the crossing. He remained on his horse about sixty-five feet from the engine, and he alleges that the servants of appellant, while he was sitting- on his horse, carelessly opened the valves on the engine and negligently permitted large quantities of steam to escape in the direction of and on the…