La Pontney v. Shedden Cartage Co.

The plaintiff brought an action for negligent injury, and recovered a verdict and judgment. Defendant brings error.

The testimony offered at the trial tended to show that the plaintiff was at the time of the injury a motorman on one of the cars of the Citizens’ Street Railway. Defendant company is engaged in the business of trucking. On *515the 6th of September, 1895, at 4:05 a. m., defendant’s employes were engaged in trucking a “merry-go-round” from one part of the city to another. This “merry-go-round ” was 8 to 12 feet high, about 40 feet across, and covered with canvas. The defendant’s…