The Chicago v. Wheelbarger
Decision Date | 05 January 1907 |
Docket Number | 14,843 |
Citation | 75 Kan. 811,88 P. 531 |
Court | Kansas Supreme Court |
Parties | THE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. B. F. WHEELBARGER |
Decided January, 1907.
Error from Phillips district court; ABEL C. T. GEIGER, judge.
Judgment reversed.
M. A Low, and Paul E. Walker, for plaintiff in error.
E. S Rice, and Mahin & Mahin, for defendant in error.
At a road crossing near the station of Agra, a small town in Phillips county, B. F. Wheelbarger was struck by an engine on the railroad of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, and was injured thereby. On September 9, 1905, he recovered in the district court of that county the sum of $ 1700 as damages for such injuries. The railway company brings the case here for review.
It is claimed that the undisputed evidence in the case shows the plaintiff to have been guilty of contributory negligence which in law bars a recovery, and that the district court erred in not sustaining a demurrer to the evidence and directing a verdict for the defendant. This embraces the controversy presented. The evidence of the plaintiff upon this point reads:
This statement is not modified by any other testimony in the case. The general surface of the ground at this point is practically level and smooth. The railroad track is about three feet above the natural level of the land, and is straight for at least eighty rods each way from the crossing where the injury occurred. The plaintiff was a drayman,...
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