Spence v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Muscatine District Court. — Hon. P. B. Wolee, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff in a collision between trains on defendant’s line of road. From a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. —
1Opinion of the Court
Deemer, J. —
There was evidence tending to show, and from which the jury may have found, that on the morning of November 18, 1898, an accident had occurred on defendant’s line, of road at Moscow, the first station west of Wilton; that one Roberts, who had charge of the construetion train at Wilton, was directed to take his train and crew and go to the scene of the accident, to clear away the wreck; that pursuant to these orders Roberts made up a train, consisting of a locomotive' and an ordinary freight caboose, similar in all respects to those in which defendant carried passengers on its…
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