Medema v. Hines
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Iowa; Henry T. Reed, Judge. Action by D. Medema against Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, and another. Judgment for defendants on directed verdict, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS, District Judge.
The plaintiff Medema brought this action against the Director General of Railroads and the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, and there was judgment against him on a directed verdict after the evidence for both side’s was in. He received the personal injuries complained of just as he passed off of the west end of a country road bridge while on the way to the town of Hawarden in his Ford automobile. The bridge is a part of the highway where it crosses overhead the tracks of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co., and is 155 feet long, exclusive of dirt embankments…
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