Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. v. Greenfield

Appellee, as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, George Greenfield, brought this suit against appellant to recover damages on account of his death, caused by a train of appellant at a street crossing in the city of Sandwich, on the evening of August 6, 1892. The declaration contained four counts. The negligence charged in the first count was the failure to keep a flagman at the crossing to give warning of the approach of the train, as required by an ordinance of the city providing that such flagman should be stationed there between the hours of seven o’clock a. m. and ten…