Great Northern Ry. Co. v. Ennis
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Montana; George M. Bourquin, Judge. Action by Herbert U. Ennis and another against the Great Northern Railway Company, a corporation. There was a judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Montana; George M. Bourquin, Judge. Action by Herbert U. Ennis and another against the Great Northern Railway Company, a corporation. There was a judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error. This action was brought to recover damages on account of the death of the wife of the defendant in error Herbert L. Ennis and mother of the other defendant in error, who were plaintiffs in the court below; her death resulting from being thrown from a buggy at the time drawn by a runaway team of horses in charge of one Bigelow,…
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). We pass without comment the many manifestations of feeling disclosed by the transcript in this case, both on the part of counsel and the court, in the hope that we shall not see here another such record.
The issues between the parties were few and simple: Was there negligence on the part of the defendant company? If so, was it the cause of the death of Mrs. Ennis, and was there such contributory negligence on her part as precluded a recovery for damages by the plaintiffs ?
[1, 2] The testimony of Hamilton was that at the time of the accident he was not…
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