MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.
Half an hour after sunset (5:10), December 8, 1933, respondent's intestate, a signal maintainer, while riding his gasoline speeder over the rails, was run down and killed three miles south of Hampton, Minnesota, by petitioner's passenger train from Minneapolis, moving down grade sixty miles per hour. Darkness had come; the weather was cloudy; the train late; an hour earlier it had collided with a truck and...
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