Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Dean

This is a proceeding in error to review the action of the court below in granting a new trial to the defendants in error. The defendants in error were the parents of a single man, 20 years old, who was killed by being thrown by an overturned tractor against a car that was being unloaded on the defendant’s track in the town of Billings. The jury rendered a verdict in their favor for $1.

Two parties were sued by them, however, for the death loss of their son, the present plaintiff in error and the company for whom he was working, known as the Green-Boots Construction Company. The company had…