Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — MAKES IT A TEST CASE. [ARTICLE]

MAKES IT A TEST CASE.

. Nebraska Farmer Sues a Railroad for Failure to Observe the Law. A Nebraska statute imposes a penalty of SSOO for each failure of a railway company to have its trains whistle at the public crossings, and one-half of the fine goes to the informer. The matter will be tested for the first time. The suit was begun by Alonzo B. Miller, of Lyons, Neb., against the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company. The plaintiff sues for $78,900. Miller resides on a farm near a railroad crossing and has kept an account of such failures to blow the whistle of passing trains between May 4,1894, and Aug. 9, 1894, and noted 1,578 such failures. The petition consists of 520 sheets of typewritten legal cap.