Hughes v. Iowa Central Railway Co.

I. Defendant’s yards in {he city of Marshalltown cover many blocks of ground, and between the passenger station and the roundhouse and machine shops there are countless tracks, main line and switches, running almost east and west. North of the engine house and the turntable is the coal chute, and between them are three tracks, running east and west. The northernmost of these tracks, running close to and parallel with the coal chute, is known as the “ co'al track.” South of the coal track, and within a short distance thereof, was the repair or “ rip track,” also running nearly east and-west.…