Stinson v. Maine Central Railroad

The only claim of the defendant’s fault was in failing to ring the locomotive bell as required by Vermont statute. There was evidence it did not ring. The plaintiff’s husband testified that he listened for the bell and did not hear it while approaching the crossing and that when he first saw the train when he was about eighty feet from the crossing, he noticed it was not ringing. Ono other witness testified that it was not ringing and he would have heard it if it had been because he always noticed it when the train went by. While he admitted in cross-examination that he was not paying…