Swegle v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Plaintiff lived on a farm about two and one-half miles southwest of Grand River, and about a mile west of the crossing on which the accident occurred. On the day of the injury, plaintiff left home about 2:25 P. M., driving a team and empty wagon, going to Grand River on a business errand. He was driving a wooden-wheeled wagon, with ordinary lower box, and was sitting on a homemade seat. He was driving a team, one blind mare 7 years old and a horse 5 years old, weighing about 1,250 or 1,300 pounds each. The' team was being driven at about two or two and one-half miles an hour, at an ordinary…