Hulet v. Payne

MUNGER, District Judge.

The plaintiff in error*, hereinafter called plaintiff, brought an action against the defendant in error, hereinafter called defendant, alleging injuries as the result of the defendant’s negligence. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence the court directed a verdict against him. In this proceeding he alleges that that direction was erroneous.

The pleadings and proofs show that the plaintiff was accompanying the shipment of a carload of cattle to market over the line of the Northern Pacific Railway Company from a town in North Dakota to St. Paul, Minn. He took passage on the…