Colorado Court of Appeals September 15, 1900, No. 1836 (Maydole v. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad)

Thomson, J.

A freight train of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, upon which Jesse L. Maydole was a brakeman in the employ of the railroad company, while proceeding westwardly from Gunnison city, plunged into a stream, the bridge across which had been burned, with the result that Maydole lost his life. The accident occurred in the early morning of October 23, 1896.