Rauscher v. Great Northern Railway Co.

Lees, C.

Action for damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff was injured on November 22, 1919, while employed as a mail clerk on one of defendant’s trains. His run was from St. Paul to Casselton, North Dakota. A rule of the postal department required mail clerks to notify the engineer on a mail train who had failed to sound the whistle for a station at which mail was to be put off, of his failure so to do. Printed forms of notice were supplied to the clerks, and it was their duty to deliver the notice to the engineer at the first stop after such a station had been passed without whistling and…