Hart v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of North Dakota. Aotion by John R. Hart, as administrator of the estate of Chester B. Starr, deceased, against the Northern Pacific Railway Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
This suit was instituted by the plaintiff below to recover, on behalf of the next of kin and heirs at law of Chester B. Starr, damages suffered by them by the alleged negligence of the defendant in so operating one of its trains of cars as to cause his death. The act of negligence complained of in the petition was that the defendant caused one of its west-bound passenger trains to be propelled over its main track in its yards in the city of Jamestown, N. D., “at a high, unlawful, reckless, careless, and negligent and dangerous rate of speed! without any notice, signal, or…
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