Supreme Court of Minnesota January 17, 1908, Nos. 15,396—(142) (Dizonno v. Great Northern Railway Co.)

ELLIOTT, J.

A flat car, known as a “gondola car,” belonging to the Great Northern Railway Company, loaded with steel plates, tipped over and caused the wreck of a freight train. The car fell outside the rails, and the track was soon cleared, leaving the car on its side. The steel plates with which the car was loaded were about thirty feet long, five feet wide, and half an inch thick.