Andrews v. Mason City & Fort Dodge Railway Co.

The defendant’s road passes along Main street in the town of Lehigh some four hundred feet, and in that distance it makes diagonally across the *671street. This street is the principal business street of the town. On the day of the injury complained of the defendant’s engine stood in the street at a point on its track, so as to leave a distance of about fifteen feet between the engine and the edge of the sidewalk on the west side of the street. The plaintiff was in the act of taking a trunk from the depot to a store on the west side of the street with his team and wagon. To reach the store by…