Briegel v. Union Pacific Railroad

Blackledge, District Judge.

This action was instituted to recover damages for the killing of certain cattle by defendant’s railroad train at the point of Nichols station, or siding,_ on November 25, 1920. The direction of the railroad line is east and west, and at this point it consisted of a double-track main line and a connected switch track on the south' side thereof. Somewhat west of the east end of the .switch track a public highway extended north and south across the tracks. The station grounds were occupied by a beet dump, scale house, two large piles of beets containing approximately…