Union Pacific Railway Co. v. McDonald

The Union Pacific Pailroad Company seeks the reversal of the judgment below for the sum of $7500, the amount assessed against it, by the verdict of a jury, as compensation to the defendant in error for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him in consequence of the want of - due care upon the part of the company in managing and controlling certain premises belonging to it, on which the plaintiff received such injuries.

The evidence, on behalf of the plaintiff, tended to establish the following facts: At the time and before the injuries in question were received the defendant…