McFarlane v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

This case concerns a coffee pot and a freight train.

The testimony, as it must have been found by the jury, showed that the respondent, Mrs. McFarlane, was employed by the appellant railway company under a written contract to furnish meals for the appellant’s bridge gang crew working at various points along the branch line of the railway known as the Tacoma & Eastern Railway. The bridge gang had been working at the station at Mineral, and upon the completion of the work there were ordered to work on a bridge near the station of Alder, this being the third station from Mineral towards Tacoma.…