United States Express Co. v. Everest

Citations

• 72 Kan. 517
• 83 P. 817
• 1906 Kan. LEXIS 348

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Negligence — Injury to Telegraph Messenger — Liability of Express Company. Under the circumstances of this case it is held, that an express company engaged in unloading upon a truck express matter from a car standing upon a railroad-track in the union depot at Kansas City, Mo., was under no obligation to protect from injury, through a collision with the truck, a messenger of the Western Union Telegraph Company who was riding by permission of the pilot upon the steps of the rear car of an empty passenger-train backing into the depot upon an adjacent track which the truck obstructed.</p>