Crandall v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for •Stevens county, Steidl, J., overruling a demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
The complaint alleges that John Crandall, plaintiff’s intestate, was in defendant’s employ as a brakeman on one of its freight trains; that it was the custom of defendant to use automatic air brakes upon all of its freight trains, and in making up trains to provide that cars not so equipped be placed in the rear; that upon this occasion, contrary to its rule, defendant placed a certain *192freight car, not so provided, in the middle of a freight train made up of about forty cars, which was otherwise completely equipped with automatic air brakes; that the effect of placing such car, known as a…
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