Kansas City Surburban Belt Railway Co v. Herman

Citations

• 64 Kan. 546
• 68 P. 46
• 1902 Kan. LEXIS 240

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COUBT.</p> <p>Railways — Injury to Ineant — Instructions Sustained. Where the jury are instructed that a railway company is guilty of negligence when it runs a train within the limits of a city of the first class faster than is permitted by ordinance, but that such violation of law does not of itself render the railway company liable to one who has sustained injuries unless it is shown by a preponderance of the evidence that such injuries “were the direct and proximate result of the rate of speed at which the train was traveling,” the instructions, construed together, are not erroneous.</p>