Grafton v. Delano
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Page District Court. — E. B. Woodruff, Judge. Action at law to recover damages on account of the death of Andrew P. Johnson. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
The accident in question occurred near the defendant’s railway station at the incorporated town of Blanchard, in Page County. While the general course of the railway is east and west, its track curves, as it enters the town from the east, and runs thence substantially due north for a considerable distance. Some 1,500 feet or more north of the station is a stockyard or stock pen, adjacent to the track on the east side. On the opposite side and near the right of way is a slaughterhouse and stock pen. From this house running north about 300 feet, where it turns at a right angle eastward and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dalton v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1897
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