Supreme Court of Minnesota May 10, 1901, Nos. 12,522 — (68) (Crandall v. Great Northern Railway Co.)

LEWIS, J.

The complaint alleges that John Crandall, plaintiff’s intestate, was in defendant’s employ as a brakeman on one of its freight trains; that it was the custom of defendant to use automatic air brakes upon all of its freight trains, and in making up trains to provide that cars not so equipped be placed in the rear; that upon this occasion, contrary to its rule, defendant placed a certain