Hunt v. Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Blachhawk District Court. — C. E. Bansieb, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff in a collision of street ears upon defendant’s line of road. Trial to a jury, verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $10,000, which the court reduced to $7,500, and for that amount, with interest, rendered judgment. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Plaintiff, a motorman in defendant’s employ, was injured in a street car collision happening on one of defendant’s lines of road in the city of "Waterloo, and claims that the accident occurred by reason of the negligence and *724incompetence of one Smith, a motorman, also in defendant’s employ, in charge of the car which collided with the one which plaintiff was driving. It is alleged that defendant was negligent in retaining Smith in its employment after knowledge, actual, or constructive, that he was an incompetent motorman. This was denied by defendant, and it also pleaded that the accident…
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