Pollard v. Gorman

The surviving children sued the railroad company for the full value of the life of their mother, who, while riding as a guest in an automobile driven by her husband, was billed on a public crossing by the impact of a locomotive drawing four passenger-cars. The automobile was traveling northward up the paved highway, and the train was moving at 50 or 60 miles an hour in the same direction. The car entered an unpaved road, at an approximate right angle to the highway, about 30 feet from the railroad-track, and started to cross the track at a speed of about 35 miles an hour. The mother was…