Frost v. Milwaukee & Northern Railroad

Plaintiffs were lumbermen, and at the time of the accident complained of they had several teams hauling logs from the east across the defendant’s track to> the Michigamme river. The crossing was constructed by the defendant in the usual manner, for the sole convenience of the plaintiffs, and was known as the “Frost & Murphy Crossing.” Plaintiffs kept three or four men upon their logging road to keep it covered with snow, and, as the witnesses expressed it, “in good slipping condition.” On the 14th day of February, 1890, Gould, one of plaintiff’s teamsters, with a team of four horses and a…