Bryant v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Railway & Bridge Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. N. W. Macy, Judge. Action to recover damages for a personal inj ury sustained by the plaintiff while traveling as a passenger on the defendant’s railroad. There was a trial by jury, and a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, C. J.
*4841 *483It appears from the evidence in the case, that on the thirty-first day of May, 1898, the *484plaintiff was severely injured while riding on the defendant’s electric motor line, by reason of a collision of the car in which she was riding, with a train, at a crossing on another railroad. The collision and the injury to the plaintiff were described as follows, in her examination as a witness, on the trial: “Live at Council Bluffs, Iowa. On May 81, 1898, the members of our family were, father, mother, brother, and younger sister. At that time I was stenographer for the Bock Island Bailway, at the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Brown v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1884
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- Day v. GoodwinSupreme Court of Iowa · 1898
- Lehman ex rel. Lehman v. Minneapolis & St. Louis RailroadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1911