Prok v. N. & W. Railway Co.

PoffenbaRGER, Judge:

The principal question developed on this writ of error is whether a railroad company, in running an engine backward on its main line, through a village, is under duty to keep a *698lookout for children and trespassers, the situation being such as deprives the engineer and fireman of adequate view of the track at the point of danger.

Plaintiffs decedent, a little girl less than four years old, was struck and killed by an enormous engine of the defendant company, weighing 292,000’pounds, and used for helping coal trains over a heavy grade. She and another little girl, somewhat…