Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Hood

Robert Hood who will be referred to in this opinion by name, or as the appellee, or plaintiff, sued the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company and Guy A. Thompson, Trustee, called defendants or appellants, for damages alleging that he was injured while driving his truck south across railroad tracks at the intersection of Arkansas avenue in the city of Russellville on December 19, 1937. In his complaint he alleges that he stopped his truck and looked both ways for trains and started to cross the tracks and was struck by the train with such force that the truck was completely demolished, and he was…