Matthieson v. Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Co.

Dysart is a small way station on defendant’s line of railway. On one side of the depot building there is a platform fourteen feet in width, and extending the length of the depot, and for some distance beyond. This platform is used in loading and unloading freight, and also for the use of passengers in leaving and boarding defendant’s trains. From the platform one door opens into the depot waiting room, and another door opens into the freight and baggage room. On the day of the accident of which plaintiff complains, and in the forenoon, a freight train had stopped at the depot, and therefrom…