Case Name: V. E. CANEPA v. MISSISSIPPI RIVER & BONNE TERRE RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1908-02-18
Citations: 209 Mo. 198
Docket Number: 
Parties: V. E. CANEPA v. MISSISSIPPI RIVER & BONNE TERRE RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant.
Judges: All concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 209
Pages: 198–199

Head Matter:
V. E. CANEPA v. MISSISSIPPI RIVER & BONNE TERRE RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant.
Division Two,
February 18, 1908.
NEGiliGENCE: Contributory: Reversal. For the reasons set forth in Sanguinette v. Railroad, 196 Mo. 466, it is held, that the injuries of plaintiff in this case were largely due to his own negligence in permitting his wagon to collide with a fast-moving train, at a country crossing, and the judgment of $5,000 in his favor is therefore reversed.
Appeal from Ste. Genevieve Circuit Court . — Hon. Robt. A. Anthony, Judge.
Reversed.
E. A. Rosier, J. H. Makigen and James F. Green for appellant.

Opinion:
BURGESS, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment for $5,000 in favor of plaintiff for damages alleged to have been sustained by him in consequence of injuries received through the alleged! negligence of defendant railway company. The suit was instituted in Jefferson county, but was • removed by change of venue to the circuit court of Ste. Genevieve county, where it was tried.
The plaintiff was injured while attempting to cross the defendant's railroad track in a two-horse wagon in which he and Henry A. Sanguinette were riding. The wagon collided with defendant's fast-moving train- as results of which collision the wagon was demolished, Sanguinette killed and plaintiff seriously injured.
The evidence in this case is in all material respects the same as that in the case of Sanguinette v. Railroad, 196 Mo. 466, wherein the facts are fully reviewed and where the judgment of the trial court in favor of the plaintiff in that ease is reversed, this court finding that Sanguinette came to his death as a result of palpable negligence on his own part. It was the same accident which occasioned Sanguinette's death and plaintiff's injuries, and, after a careful reading of the facts as disclosed by the record in this ease, we are forced to the conclusion that said injuries were largely the result of plaintiff's own negligence. The judgment should be, and is, reversed.
All concur.