Holland v. Oregon Short Line Railroad

This is an action for the recovery . of damages resulting from the alleged negligence of the defendant. The answer, after admitting that it was and is a corporation, denied each and every other allegation of the complaint. It appears from the evidence that the plain tiff, while driving his team, attached to a mowing machine, on the public highway, across the defendant’s railroad, at what was known as the “Knowles Crossing,” was struck by a moving train of the defendant, thereby receiving a. personal injury, his team killed, and the mowing machine broken up. A judgment was rendered in favor of…