Hanley v. Great Northern Ry. Co.

ME. CHIEF COMMISSIONEE LAW

prepared the opinion for the court.

The plaintiff, Dr. Hanley, claims to have been injured on December 22, 1917, near Oswego, Montana, by reason of a head-on collision between the train upon which he was being carried as a passenger and another of defendant’s trains. He contends that while riding in the day coach he was thrown forward from his seat by a sudden stopping of the train, thereby severely wrenching his body, straining his muscles, and rupturing his abdominal walls, by reason of which he became sick and sore, and at all times since has suffered and now…