Patterson v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co.

Plaintiff brought suit against defendant, and alleged in his declaration that “ on or about the 27th day of March, 1883, the plaintiff was proceeding on a train of cars running from Toledo, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio, on the Columbus, Hocking Yalley & Toledo Bail way, and was a regular passenger upon said train, and said train had reached a point at East Toledo, where, from the main line on which it was proceeding, there branched off a side line running up the east branch of the Maumee river, upon which branch line the said defendant was moving a train of cars, and it was the duty of the said…