Wall v. Great Northern Railway Co.
North Dakota Supreme Court
Action for personal injuries, in District Court, Bottineau County, Burr, J. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff the defendant has appealed. A person riding on a stock contract assumes such risks and inconveniences as are incident to traveling on a freight train with his stock and such inconveniences and risks as he will encounter with the in■strumentalities used in that connection. By.
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Action for personal injuries, in District Court, Bottineau County, Burr, J. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff the defendant has appealed. A person riding on a stock contract assumes such risks and inconveniences as are incident to traveling on a freight train with his stock and such inconveniences and risks as he will encounter with the in■strumentalities used in that connection. By. Oo. v. Trayer, 103 N. W. 680. During the interval of a passenger’s absence after the departure from the station and before his return to it for the purpose of taking the same or another train, he is not…
1Opinion of the CourtBronson, J.
This is an action for personal injuries. The defendant has appealed from a judgment entered upon a verdict of $500 returned ■for the plaintiff. The facts substantially are as follows:
On October 15, 1918, the plaintiff was injured in the stockyards at Devils Lake, North Dakota, while walking in the dark upon a bulkhead or sort of platform. This bulkhead was constructed for purposes of unloading cattle and live stock. The plaintiff was injured by stepping off the samé, occasioning a fractured limb. The plaintiff was accompanying some stock owned and shipped by him upon a shipper’s or drover’s…
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