Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, & Chicago Railroad v. Karns

Sanford R. Karns and John Placinger, in January, 1857, drove wagons, loaded with lard, &c., into the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and were bound for the warehouse of Mr. Comparet. That warehouse stood about three rods back from a railroad track,' along which locomotives and cars were frequently passing, as was well known to Karns and Placinger. Placinger drove his wagon up to the warehouse first, and unloaded. While he was thus engaged, the locomotive, then on the track, and standing, when he drove up, at a platform, within four hundred feet or less of the warehouse, advanced twice, up near…