Seley v. Southern Pacific Co.

Zane, C. J.:

This action was instituted by the administratrix of the estate of the late William H. Seley, to recover damages to his widow and children, in consequence of his death, occasioned, as alleged, by the negligence of the appellant. The deceased was employed by the appellant as a conductor on its freight'train, and while endeavoring to make a coupling at Wells, a station in Nevada, one of his feet became fastened in an open frog, and he was run over by a car and killed.

It appears from the evidence that blocked or cast-iron frogs are used in many tracks. In these the point of. the space…