Sevanin v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co.
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from, District Court, Wheatland, County; John A. Matthews, Judge. Joseph George Sevanin, as administrator of the estate of Panteli Simeon Katsios, deceased, against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company. Judgment of non-suit and plaintiff appeals. ' Was the negligence of the defendant the proximate ■ cause of the 'death of Katsios? The question of law involved in this inquiry is, on motion for a nonsuit, easily answered.
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Appeal from, District Court, Wheatland, County; John A. Matthews, Judge. Joseph George Sevanin, as administrator of the estate of Panteli Simeon Katsios, deceased, against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company. Judgment of non-suit and plaintiff appeals. ' Was the negligence of the defendant the proximate ■ cause of the 'death of Katsios? The question of law involved in this inquiry is, on motion for a nonsuit, easily answered. If the act of the defendant in furnishing to the deceased, an immature, ignorant employee of foreign birth, for use in thawing out the air-pipes, an iron…
1Opinion of the Court
MR. COMMISSIONER AYERS
prepared the opinion for the court.
On December 5, .1916, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, in operating its main line of railroad from Chicago to Seattle, maintained a turntable at Harlowton, then Meagher, now Wheatland, county. Harlowton being the sta*550tion to which its trains coming from the Bast were changed from steam to electric power, it was necessary to turn the steam engines on said turntable for their return trips. The turntable was operated and propelled by compressed air, conveyed to it by am overhead iron pipe, and in cold weather the air would…
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