Stone v. Union Pacific Railroad

Tbis is an appeal from a judgment in favor of respondent entered ini an action brought by him to recover damages for the death of bis intestate, alleged to bave been caused by tbe negligence of tbe appellant. Tbe death resulted from a collision of a passenger train and a freight train run in opposite directions over tbe defendant’s line of railroad .near Azusa in tbe state of Wyoming. Deceased was in defendant’s employ, and was tbe engineer of tbe freight train, designated “Extra 1,661,” tbe number of tbe engine drawing tbe train. Tbe train’ consisted of tbirtv-one loaded freight cars…