Judgment unanimously reversed, on the law, and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event.
Memorandum:
Playing with companions on land adjoining defendant railroad's right of way, the plaintiff, then nine years old, sought to escape a friend, who was chasing him, by running onto defendant's tracks (four sets abreast) and climbing up on a ladder of a freight car in a train which had just come to a halt. Suddenly the car was jolted, plaintiff fell and...
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