Potter v. New York, Ontario & Western Railway Co.

The defendant railroad was the owner of a coal trestle some twenty-five feet wide and thirty feet high. The space below the deck of the trestle was partitioned off into fifty compartments, each compartment having two of the bulkheads, used to support the trestle, as side walls. The deck of the trestle served as a roof, while the base of the trestle served as a floor for all compartments. Planking constituted the other walls, and completed the inclosures. These pockets were designed to store coal, delivered to them by the railroad, through trap doors in the deck, from coal cars stationed on…