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Resource 12 . 1 . 3
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Union Pacific Railway v. Cappier : "The Railroad that Ran Over a Man and Let Him Bleed to Death"

Jonathan Zittrain,
Jordi Weinstock

Do we in society have a duty to help others in distress? 

Kansas Supreme Court
66 Kan. 649, 72 P. 281
No. 13,073
1903-04-11

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