Hemmingsen v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Oconto county: S. D. HastiNG-s, Circuit Judge. Tbis action was brought to recover for tbe pecuniary injury resulting to tbe widow from tbe death of plaintiff’s intestate, employed by defendant as brakeman. Tbe negligence charged is in tbe construction and maintenance of one of its tracks so near a certain platform as to be “unreasonably and unnecessarily hazardous and dangerous.” Tbe jury returned tbe following verdict: “(1) Was tbe platform between which and tbe car tbe deceased, George E. Parks, was crushed, so close to tbe side track as to…