Hannigan v. Northern Pacific Railway Company

This is an appeal from a jury verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff, in the sum of $67,500.

The jury verdict was the result of a fatal crossing accident about three miles south of Sidney in Richland County between the driver of a car, the decedent Hannigan and a freight train of the Northern Pacific Railway Company.

The facts in this tragedy are these: Wiley Hannigan, the decedent, was employed as a general foreman in charge of the *337electrical work for Ebasco Services in constructing a generating plant for tbe Montana-Dakota Utility south of Sidney, east of the railroad tracks and east…