Gustafson v. Northern Pacific Railway Company

This action was brought by plaintiff, Hilda Gustafson, in her own right as the mother and only heir at law of James Gustafson, deceased, to recover damages for the death of her son, which, it is charged, was caused by the negligence of the defendant railway corporation and its agents, defendants, R. M. Cain, the engineer, and brakemen, L. E. Meske and L. S. Hatcher.

Defendant railway owns and operates railroad yards in Missoula, Montana, and trackage east and west of that city. Ap*157proximately nine-tenths of a mile west of Missoula a gravel road crosses the Northern Pacific tracks at what is…