Slette v. Great Northern Railway Co.

The plaintiff was a section man in the defendant’s service. He and his foreman, one Palmer, went out from Cottonwood station with a hand car, going northeast, to engage in their work on the road. Only these two men were on the car. They knew then, from seeing the smoke of the engine, that a train was coming towards Cottonwood from the southwest, the train being then about two miles away, according to the plaintiff’s testimony, but much more than that according to some of the evidence. It was an irregular freight train, not running on schedule time. The railway track over which the hand car…