Ingebretsen v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad

On March 2,1913, the plaintiff, a young man of 20 years of age, loaded a ear of cattle at Sheffield, Iowa, for shipment over defendant’s line of railway to Chicago, Illinois. Plaintiff accompanied the shipment, taking passage upon the caboose or way car attached to the freight train. Arriving at Steamboat Eock, a station upon the defendant’s road in Hardin County, the train was stopped and the engine detached therefrom for some purpose, leaving the train standing upon the main line. While waiting thus for the return of the engine, another freight train following upon the main track came from…