57 Minn. 332 | Minn. | 1894
A train of the defendant, what in railroad business is called a “wild train,” consisting of a locomotive, tender, and caboose car, on which no persons except the servants of the defendant in charge.of it were permitted to ride, started at Fountain to run to the next station. The plaintiff’s son, a bright, intelligent boy, over thirteen years of age, accustomed to be about the station, and familiar with the moving of trains, after the train started, got bn the lower step of the front platform of the caboose, holding with both hands to the iron railings to be taken hold of by one getting on or off the car, and, after riding a short distance, stepped off to the ground, and, retaining his hold on the railings, the train moving
Judgment affirmed.
(Opinion published 59 N. W. 307.)