Venho v. Ostrander Railway & Timber Co.

Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from a collision of two logging trains. The defendants operated logging trains, independently, over the same line of track extending from Ostrander back into the hills to the east.

At the time of the collision, plaintiff was riding on one of the trains of the Ostrander Railway & Timber Company. For about two weeks prior thereto, he had been employed in tbe woods by that company as a “faller,” but had ceased to work as such tbe evening before tbe accident and, at tbe time be was injured, was on bis way out from tbe…