Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. v. Anderson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Roy Anderson, recovered a judgment against the railway company for personal injuries sustained by being compelled by one of its trainmen to get off of a freight train while it was in rapid motion. Anderson was a trespasser, and claimed he was forced to get off by threats of personal violence at a time when it was very dangerous to do so. He first said a brakeman threatened him, but afterwards identified the conductor as the man. The company presents six assignments of error.
The first assignment, that the verdict of the jury “is not justified by the evidence…
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