State v. Nevada Northern Railway Co.

OPINION

By the Court,

Sanders, J.:

Complaint was filed in the court below’, charging that on the 30th day of October, 1923, the Nevada Northern Railway Company operated one of its freight trains over its line of railroad extending a distance of more than 95 miles from Cobre, Nevada, to Ely, Nevada, with a crew of but five persons, in violation of section 3 of an act known as the “Full Crew Law,” Statutes 1913, c. 74, p. 62. The defendant, for answer to the complaint, admitted that the freight train, referred to and operated on the day named in the complaint, was not manned as required by section…