Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Yost

Ragan, C.

Anthony Yost, in the district court bf York county, sued the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company for damages for injuries sustained by him by being struck by one of its engines. The claim of Yost ivas that the proximate-cause of the injury he had received ivas the negligence of the railroad company’s empl-oyés. He had judgment, to review which the railroad company has filed here a petition in error.

A contention of the railroad company is that the proximate cause of Yost’s injury was-his own negligence. Alger is a station on the line of the railroad company in the state of…