Skelton v. Great Northern Railway Co.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff on or about September 23, 1934, while- he was riding with a stock shipment under contract with the defendant from Stanford, Montana, to St. Paul, Minnesota.

In his complaint plaintiff alleges that through the negligence of the defendant company and one of its locomotive engineers in their operation of the train in question, and while plaintiff was riding in the coach which was provided for himself and others accompanying the stock, the coach was carelessly, sud denly and violently jerked…