Supreme Court of Iowa January 24, 1896 (Fish v. Illinois Central Railway Co.)

Granger, J.

I. The plaintiff is the administratrix of the estate of Howard Fish, deceased, who was a brakeman on defendant’s line of road, and was, in the month of December, 1890, in defendant’s yard at Cherokee, Iowa, while uncoupling cars, run over and killed. This action is for damage to the estate, based on averments of negligence.