Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. v. Donovan
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by Matthew Donovan against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company to recover for personal injuries sustained by him in a collision with a freight car at a recognized grade crossing in the company's yard in the western suburbs of Chicago. The yard contained U) or more parallel tracks extending east and west across a public street, and numbered consecutively from north to south. One of the company’s freight trains, upon which Donovan was head brakeman, entered the yard in the early morning, while it was yet dark, and was backed in on…
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