Supreme Court of Missouri June 30, 1900 (Graney v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.)

SHERWOOD, J.

This case has been here before (140 Mo. 89), and is known among the members of the bar of this State, as the “suction case.” It is an action for $5,000 damages for the death of James Graney, the minor son of plaintiffs, alleged to have been caused by his being “drawn or sucked into and under defendant’s train by the force and velocity of said train which was moving at a reckless rate