Young v. People's Gas & Electric Co.

The defendant corporation operates a street railway system in .the city of Burlington, Iowa. By some arrangement between said railway company and the Post Office Department of the United States, mail boxes are attached to appellant’s cars for the reception and transportation of mail deposited therein. At certain intervals a carrier in the postal service is required to visit the central barn or shed in which the cars are stored, and collect ■the mail from the boxes, a duty which at the time of the accident complained of was being performed by the plaintiff. On the evening of the 12th of…