Sullivan v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

delivered tbe opinion of the court.

The plaintiff, accompanied by her son, a boy about twelve years old, drove her ear along Garden Avenue in the city of Butte at a point where the avenue is crossed by seven railway tracks — three of the Great Northern, two of the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific, and two of the Northern Pacific. From south to north the tracks are as follows: 1, 2 and 3, Great Northern; 4 and 5, Butte, Anaconda & Pacific; 6 and 7, Northern Pacific. From track 1 to track 6 is a distance of about 175 feet. The Great Northern maintains a “flagman’s shanty” between tracks 3 and 4. The…