Supreme Court of Iowa October 21, 1871 (O'Keefe v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad)

Oole, J.

The evidence shows that the plaintiff’s intestate, Dennis O’Keefe, was in a state of intoxication on the evening of the 14th day of February, 1868, and that he was lying on or very near to the track of the defendant’s road, a short distance east of the bridge across the Des Moines river, in the city of Des Moines; that on or about that day the defendant had just completed its track