Hartman v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

Citations

• 94 Kan. 184
• 146 P. 335
• 1915 Kan. LEXIS 66

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Negligence — Train Collision — Escape of Vicious Animal — Personal Injuries to Pedestrian — Negligence of Railway Proximate Cause of Injuries. A collision between freight trains, caused by the negligence of the railway’s employees, resulted in the wreck of a number of cars loaded with cattle, from which a number of wild, dangerous, Texas cattle escaped into the city of Harper, Kan., where, while they were being gathered up and driven to the stockyards, by persons employed by the railway for that purpose, one of the cattle, a cow, attacked and injured the plaintiff, who was walking on the sidewalk, this cow, after the wreck, before attacking the plaintiff, having made three separate attacks on one of the employees driving her'. The railway is held liable for the damage done by this cow to the plaintiff.</p>