Hunter v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.

1 Reported in 230 N.W. 793, 231 N.W. 920. Plaintiff purchased a ticket for passage on one of defendant's freight trains from Vernon Center to Blue Earth in this state. The train was what is known as an accommodation or mixed train — a freight train carrying passengers in the caboose between local points. Plaintiff was a former employe of the defendant, an experienced railway brakeman and conductor. He was familiar with the operation of this train over the route he intended to travel. He well knew that under the rules of the company and under the state law the conductor had no right to permit…