Snakenberg v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.

I. On the night of August 14, 1914, the plaintiff’s intestate, with one Joe Borough and one N. L. Northup, was driving northward on the main north and south highway, a quarter of a mile east of the town of Martinsburg. This high*217way crosses tbe tracks of the Burlington Railroad, and also the tracks of the defendant company, about a quarter of a mile east of the defendant’s depot at Martinsburg. The three men were riding in a single buggy, the plaintiff’s intestate driving the horse, while sitting in the middle, on the knees of the other two. Northup was on the right side of the buggy, and…