Johnson v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

— The petition is lacking in directness of allegation and much is left therein to mere inference. Considering it, however, in the light of the arguments, the case presented is in brief as follows: 'The plaintiff lived near by the defendant’s right of way. She was the friend of one of the defendant’s brakemen. While upon a passing *739train, he undertook to deliver to her a personal note from .himself. He attached it to a torpedo for the purpose of weight and threw the same to the ground near the edge of .the right of way near the plaintiff’s home. It is alleged also that prior to such time he had…