Dean v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

On t)he 4th of November, 1921, Albert Dean was in the employ of the Home Furniture Company of Sioux Falls, S. D., and driving one of its trucks returning from a trip to Spirit Lake, Iowa. 'While attempting to cross the tracks of defendant, at a railroad crossing in the village of Ocheydan, Iowa, the truck was struck ’by the engine of a freight train and Dean was injured. The Home Furniture Company paid Dean as its employee $1,295 under the Workmen’s Compensation Act of this state (Laws 1917, c. 37*5) • This action was later commenced to recover of the defendant railway company, not the full…