Wheelan v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

This action is brought by the plaintiff, as the assignee in trust of the administrator of the estate of William Doyle, deceased. It appears that the intestate, William Doyle, was, on August 3, 1888, in the employ of the defendant as a section man or track repairer on its line of railway running from Marion to Ottumwa, and on that part of said line situated in Iowa county, in the vicinity of the stations of North English and Parnell. That on said day, and while engaged in his said occupation, at the place above named, a freight train of the defendant came by, going northeastward at a rapid…