Sobieski v. St. Paul & Duluth Railroad

This action is to recover for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff from being run over by a locomotive of the defendant at its station grounds in Duluth. The principal question which we have been called upon to consider is whether the case shows •contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff, so that the verdict in his favor cannot be sustained. The claim of the plaintiff that the engine by which he was injured was started from a stationary position near the place of the accident, and run until he was struck, *170without any signal by bell or otherwise, is so.well sustained by the…