Johnston v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

The facts in this case are not in dispute. The defendant company operates a railroad, one terminus being at Eagle Grove, Iowa, and the other at Elmore, Minnesota, and each day in the week, except Sunday, runs a local or way freight train from the former to the latter place. This train carries both interstate and intrastate shipments. The service rendered is to pick up and set out cars at the various stations between the terminals, do the station switching, and unload and load such freight as might be destined to, or consigned from, any of the stations along the route. At the time in question,…