Nordlund v. Lewis & Clark Railroad

Evidence favorable to the plaintiffs indicates that the defendant operates a stretch of logging railroad in Clatsop county, approximately 14 miles long. Its equipment is a locomotive and 31 sets of logging tracks. Each set consists of two tracks having four wheels each. The defendant hauls nothing except the logs cut by the LaDee Logging Company. At a curve on this railroad, 150 feet from the place identified by the witnesses as the rock crusher bridge, Nordlund was killed when the front wheels of the truck upon which he was performing his duties as a brakeman jumped from the rails and threw…