Hajsek v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Ames, C.

The plaintiff, Anna Hajsek, and her husband, Vaclav, were farmers, living a short distance northwest of the village of Ord, in Valley county. On the 22d day of December, 1900, they drove to town with their family team, a span of horses, attached to a common lumber wagon, upon the box of which was a spring seat, upon which they sat. After spending the afternoon in the transaction of business with the village storekeepers, they started toward home at about six and a half o’clock in the evening. The night was cold, dark and stormy, the wind blowing fiercely from the northwest, and…