Wolf v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

During an unusually severe snow storm defendant’s freight train No. 56 was running northerly on a single-track line. It was being followed by passenger train No. 6. Near Warsaw, N. Y., those in charge of No. 56 sought to run into a switch so as to let No. 6 pass, as it was known to them that No. 6 was about due at that point. At the location of the switch the snow was piled so high upon the track that an effort to side track No. 56, at that point, was abandoned, and the train proceeded on for about 2,000 feet toward another switch. At the point of the first mentioned switch there was a block…