Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Ross
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. -. This was an action brought by a locomotive engineer, in the employ of the plaintiff in error, defendant below, to recover damages for injuries received in a collision which was caused by the negligence of the conductor of the train.■■ The facts and circumstances connected with the injury are set forth in the opinion of the court.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. -. This was an action brought by a locomotive engineer, in the employ of the plaintiff in error, defendant below, to recover damages for injuries received in a collision which was caused by the negligence of the conductor of the train.■■ The facts and circumstances connected with the injury are set forth in the opinion of the court. At the trial below, several questions arose whose determination by the Court below was assigned as error and which were argued here. For the purposes of the opinion it is only…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The plaintiff in the court below is a citizen of Minnesota, and "by occupation an engineer on a railway train. The defendant in the court below, the plaintiff in error here, is a railway corporation created under the laws of Wisconsin. This action is brought to recover damages for injuries which the plaintiff sustained whiist engineer of a. freight train by a collision with a gravel train on the 6th of November, 1880. Both trains belonged to the company, and forr some years he had been employed' as such engineer on its roads. On that day he was in charge of the engine of a regular freight…
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