Buchanan v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Linn District Court. — Hon. J. H. Preston, Judge. This is an action to recover for a personal injury, and for damages to a liorse and buggy, occasioned, as is alleged, by the negligence of a flagman at a street crossing of the track of the defendant’s railroad, and the tracks of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, and the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company. There was a trial by jury.
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Appeal from, Linn District Court. — Hon. J. H. Preston, Judge. This is an action to recover for a personal injury, and for damages to a liorse and buggy, occasioned, as is alleged, by the negligence of a flagman at a street crossing of the track of the defendant’s railroad, and the tracks of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, and the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company. There was a trial by jury. At the close of the introduction of the plaintiff’s evidence a motion was made by defendant’s counsel to direct the jury to return a verdict for the defendant. The motion was…
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
— I. The material facts in the case are in substance as follows: The defendant, and the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, and the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company, all have railroad tracks on Fourth street, in the city of Cedar Rapids. The street, while not laid out with the cardinal points of the compass, may, for the purposes of this opinion, be said to run east and west.. On the west side of the street are two tracks belonging to the Northwestern road; next is the track of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern road ; and on the east side of the street is the…
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