Great Northern Ry. Co. v. Harman
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Montana; Geo. M. Bourquin, Judge. Action by Charles Harman against the Great Northern Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff had been working as a carpenter in the employment of certain railroad contractors, who were *960engaged in relining a tunnel on the defendant’s road. Oh being discharged from his work, the plaintiff took a push car belonging to the defendant, placed thereon his tool chest, blankets, and personal baggage, and, accompanied by another man, proceeded to push the car 'along the track of the defendant from the tunnel to Basin, a station where he expected to take a train in the direction of Butte. He claimed the right so to use the push car on the ground that the…
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