Blessing v. Camas Prairie Railroad Co.

This action was brought to recover for injuries sustained by plaintiff as the result of derailment of a locomotive on which plaintiff was employed at that time as a fireman. The claimed negligence alleged as the proximate cause of the derailment of the train and the consequent injury of plaintiff was the failure of the defendant railway company to provide and maintain a ditch between its track and the hillside.

The cause was submitted to the jury on the question whether the defendant, in the exercise of reasonable care, was required to provide and keep open a ditch along its track at the place…