Briggs v. Great Northern Railway Co.

The plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment entered for defendant after the court had sustained a general demurrer to the second amended complaint.

The sole question is whether the complaint states a cause of action. It is alleged that the Minneapolis & St. Cloud Railroad Company, now the Great Northern Railway Company, originally constructed its transcontinental railroad by way of Smith and Pleasant valleys between the stations of Columbia Falls, in Flathead county, and Jennings, in what is now Lincoln county, over which it operated its trains from the month of January, 1892, until the first…