Chicago G. W. Ry. Co. v. Price
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United State? for the Northern District of Iowa. On the night of May 4, 1896, L. O. Price was a conductor in charge of a freight train of the Chicago Great Western Railway Company which was running from Chicago, in the state of Illinois, to Dubuque, in the state of Iowa. The train, consisted of 22 loaded ears. Sycamore is a city in Illinois, on this railroad, about 57 miles west of Chicago.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United State? for the Northern District of Iowa. On the night of May 4, 1896, L. O. Price was a conductor in charge of a freight train of the Chicago Great Western Railway Company which was running from Chicago, in the state of Illinois, to Dubuque, in the state of Iowa. The train, consisted of 22 loaded ears. Sycamore is a city in Illinois, on this railroad, about 57 miles west of Chicago. There is a hill about two miles east of this city, so that the railroad is on a descending grade nearly all the way from the top of this hill to the water tank at…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
After several witnesses had testified that the roadbed and the railroad track of the plaintiff in error from the top of the hill east of Sycamore to the water tank in that city, where the collision occurred, were in a poor condition; that some of the ties were rotten, and that many of the spikes were loose or lost; and after Charles A. Field had testified that he was a locomotive engineer, that he had been in the employment of the plaintiff in error for 11 years, that he was running a suburban train from Chicago to Sycamore at and before the time of the accident, that he knew the condition of…
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