Legal Opinion

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

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided May 29, 1895PublishedCited by 22 opinions

Appeal from Davis District Court. — Hon. H. C. Traverse, Judge. Action for personal injuries. Judgment for plaintiff, and the defendant appealed.

1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.

1 *1652 *164Plaintiff is the administrator of the estate of Frank Mitchell, deceased. Mitchell was killed on the defendant’s line of road about the twenty-fourth day of November, 1892. The circumstances are substantially a.s follows: Mitchell was at the time, and for about five months had been, a section hand on defendant’s road on the section where the accident occurred, which section was some six and one-half miles in length, the town of Unionville being its eastern limit. Mitchell resided near defendant’s line of road, and about three and one-half miles west of Union-ville. He was not regularly a…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Greenleaf v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1870
  2. Burg v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1894
  3. Masser v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1886
  4. Hopkinson v. Knapp & Spalding Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1894
  5. Way v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1875

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Lunde v. Cudahy Packing Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1908
  2. Ames v. Waterloo & Cedar Falls Rapid Transit Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1903
  3. Bell v. Incorporated Town of ClarionSupreme Court of Iowa · 1901
  4. Mann v. Des Moines Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1942
  5. Mast v. Illinois Cent. R. Co.District Court, N.D. Iowa · 1948

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