Cashin v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Appeal by the defendant, the Northern Pacific Eailway Company, from a judgment in favor of Mary E. Cashin, plaintiff.

Between Butte and Homestake, the main line of the Northern Pacific Railway is constructed along a steep mountainside strewn or set with large granite boulders which, with the winter frost and spring thaws, are apt to become loosened and a menace to traffic on the line. Each spring loosened boulders are broken up by blasting and removed from the mountainside. Prior to 1929, this plaintiff lived with her husband and children at a point but 400 feet from the railroad track and at…