Lonergan v. Illinois Central Railroad
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Floyd District Court. — Hon. George W. Buddick, Judge. Action to recover for personal injuries caused by tbe negligence of defendant’s employees in failing to ring tbe bell of an engine running upon tbe defendant’s railroad. The cause was tried to a jury, and upon direction of the court a verdict was rendered for the defendant. The plaintiff appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, C. J.
The undisputed facts of the case are these: While the plaintiff was rightfully engaged in unloading corn from his wagon into a crib upon the defendant’s depot ground near the railroad track, an engine passing on the railroad frightened the plaintiff’s horses hitched to the wagon, causing them to run away, throwing the plaintiff from the wagon, and thereby inflicting personal injuries, to recover for which this suit is brought. The crib in which plaintiff was unloading the corn was near two highway crossings upon the defendant’s road, over which the engine ran without the bell thereon being…
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