Reams v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad

Olsen, C.

Plaintiff appeals from the judgment of dismissal entered pursuant to an order made by the court on the trial at the close of plaintiff’s evidence. There was a motion thereafter made to vacate the order of dismissal but no motion for a new trial.

Louis M. Reams was a conductor on one of defendant’s freight trains. On January 8, 1928, the train of which he was in charge came to the station of Yankton in South Dakota. While the train was slowing down at the station and the caboose was moving along the station platform, he went out of the front door of the caboose to step onto the depot…