Fitzgerald v. The Chicago, R.I. & P. Ry. Co.
Decision Date | 15 June 1885 |
Citation | 18 Mo.App. 391 |
Parties | OSCAR D. FITZGERALD, Respondent, v. THE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RY. CO., Appellant. |
Court | Kansas Court of Appeals |
APPEAL from Clinton Circuit Court, HON. GEO. W. DUNN, J.
Reversed and remanded.
Statement of case by the court.
This is an action for killing plaintiff's cow in the town of Lathrop. The evidence showed defendant's track to be straight and the view unobstructed up and down the track for one-fourth of a mile each way from the point of contact with the animal. Plaintiff's witness, Mrs. Collet, says
M. A Low, for the appellant.
I. At such a point (the outskirts of a town) no rate of speed is per se negligence, in the absence of statutory or municipal regulation. Powell v. R. R., 76 Mo. 80; Wallace v. R. R., 74 Mo. 594; Bell v. R R., 72 Mo. 50; Lord v. R. R., S.Ct. Mo., not yet reported.
II. The evidence does not tend to show that if the train had been running at a less rate of speed, it could have been stopped in time to save the animal. Wallace v. R. R., supra.
III. There was no necessary connection between the rate of speed and the injury to the cow. Powell v. R. R., 76 Mo. 82.
IV. The finding of the court was against the evidence. If there were circumstances requiring the engineer to apprehend danger, and requiring him to take measures to prevent it, they should have been shown. But there is a total absence of any such showing here. Young v. R. R., 79 Mo. 336.
THOS. J. PORTER, for the respondent.
The trial court, sitting as a jury, weighed the evidence and reconsidered it on a motion for a new trial, arriving at the same conclusion each time, under conditions most favorable for reaching a...
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