Starks v. Lusk

Plaintiff sued and recovered for the death of her husband by being run over and killed by defendants’ freight train while backing over a trestle southwest of the station of Delta. The train in ques*252tion passed over this trestle, about 425 feet long, going north as it approached the station and, after stopping there, backed up in doing some switching so that the caboose again reached the south end of the trestle, furthest from the depot. The defendants’ track runs northeast and southwest, but we speak of the directions as north and south, as did the witnesses. It was during this retrograde…