Taylor v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by defendant Railroad Company from a judgment for plaintiff entered in the district court of Wheat-land County, following a jury trial.

The facts of this case are relatively simple. Plaintiff, a portly 51 year old man, was a professional cook. He had considerable experience in cooking for railroad extra gangs. He had been employed for various jobs by the Olympic Commissary Company since 1956. This Company had for many years operated under a contract with the defendant railroad Company, whereby the…