Phinney v. Illinois Central Railroad
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Qherohee District Qouri. — IIon. Geo. AY. AYakeeield, Judge. Action to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, wbo died as tlie result of injuries received while in the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad Company as brakeman.
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Appeal from Qherohee District Qouri. — IIon. Geo. AY. AYakeeield, Judge. Action to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, wbo died as tlie result of injuries received while in the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad Company as brakeman. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant, the Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad Company, the owner and lessor of the line of road on which the accident happened, and against the defendant the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the lessee of the road, which will be treated in the opinion as the sole defendant. From judgment on the…
1Opinion of the CourtMcClaiN, J.
The defendant, the Illinois Central Railroad Company, was in August, 1900, the lessee of a line of road belonging to the defendant, the Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad Company; and a portion of this line, extending east and west through Le Mars and Merrill, between which two places this accident happened, was also used by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad, under some arrangement by which its trains were run over the track under the rules and on the time card of the Illinois Central Railroad, and under the direction of the train dispatcher of the latter. . Deceased was a…
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- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. AveryIllinois Supreme Court · 1884
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