Jones v. Great Northern Railway Co.

Action to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff at ’a railway crossing in a collision with a train of the defendant and for damages to his auto which he was driving. There was a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals from an order denying its alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding or a new trial.

The evidence, though in dispute, sustains the finding necessarily included in the verdict that the defendant failed to give the crossing signals required by G. S. 1923 (2 Mason, 1927) § 1.0263, and that its failure was a proximate cause of the injury to the…