Weyl v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

The defendant owns and operates a line of double-track railway between the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis. At the station called “Merriam Park,” in the first-named city, there is a spur track running west of the station-house, terminating at the east line of Cleveland avenue, which avenue- crosses appellant’s tracks at right angles. Upon this spur track, and near the avenue, there stood 10 or 12 box-cars at the time of the accident herein involved. An employe of - the plaintiffs, driving a pair of mules attached to a lumber-wagon, attempting to cross the tracks on Cleveland avenue, was…