Engberg v. Great Northern Railway Co.

Stone, Justice.

Defendant’s motion for directed verdict denied, there was a verdict for plaintiff. Defendant appeals from the order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding or a new trial.

The decedent, Florence Hill, as well as her husband and her son, lost her life when the automobile in which she was riding was run into at a highway crossing by a passenger train of defendant on the outskirts of the village of Hinckley. Decedent’s husband was driving. The time was about noon of Sunday, February 12, 1939. The day was quiet and clear. There was no smoke to obscure view. There was nothing…