128 Iowa 290 | Iowa | 1905
The defendant corporation operates a street railway system in .the city of Burlington, Iowa. By some arrangement between said railway company and the Post Office Department of the United States, mail boxes are attached to appellant’s cars for the reception and transportation of mail deposited therein. At certain intervals a carrier in the postal service is required to visit the central barn or shed in which the cars are stored, and collect ■the mail from the boxes, a duty which at the time of the accident complained of was being performed by the plaintiff. On the evening of the 12th of November, 1902, the plaintiff went to the car bam, and in attempting to reach a car standing some distance within the door fell into a pit or opening in the floor, and was thereby injured. It is alleged that the defendant was negligent in having placed on the car track a block from which a spike protruded and over which plaintiff claims to have stumbled into the pit. It is also alleged that the pit was usually kept covered, affording a safe way over which plaintiff had been accustomed to pass, but that on the night of the accident it had been negligently left uncovered, and, the barn being dimly lighted, plaintiff was thrown into the
We find no prejudicial error in the record, and the judgment appealed from is affirmed.