Waller v. Northern Pacific Terminal Co.

The complaint alleges that the defendant, an Oregon corporation, owns and operates, as an interstate carrier, a railroad yard in the City of Portland, Oregon, which yard has a number of tracks parallel to each other extending in a general northerly and southerly direction upon which the defendant switches and moves cars; ‘ ‘ that the ground area between said tracks is in use by defendant’s employees as a footpath in boarding and alighting from moving cars in the performance of their duties and when said ground area is free from depressions, holes, mud, water and debris it affords a reasonably…