Biggie v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Plaintiff was injured on. the platform of defendant’s station at Exline, a town, in Iowa near the Missouri border, and. she'alleges in her petition that her injury was caused by negligence-of defendant in permitting a hole to remain in the platform in the way of passengers going from the ticket-office to board passenger trains. The cause of action pleaded is common law negligence and the petition does not plead the laws of the State of Iowa. Defendant did not attack the petition by demurrer nor plead in its answer that no cause existed under the-Iowa laws, but at the trial objected to the…