Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. Foreman
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. Action by Mary K. Foreman and Mary E. Foreman against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
POLLOCK, District Judge.
This action was brought to recover damages for a death alleged to have occurred by reason of the negligent, wrongful acts of the railway company. The facts are:
Deceased was a freight conductor in the employ of defendant, engaged in running a freight train south on defendant’s line of road from Parsons, Kan., to Muskogee, Okl. On the 5th day of August, 1903, when the train, composed of 12 to 15 ballast cars, had passed Russell Creek station', and when about seven telegraph poleá north of milepost No. 419 on defendant’s line of road, the drawhead in the car next to^ the…
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