Abdulkadir v. Western Pacific Railroad Company

CROCKETT, Justice.

On the night of July 18, 1955, at a lonely and abandoned railroad station known as Barro in western Tooele County, plaintiff, Yosif B. Abdulkadir, and his wife were walking across defendant railroad company’s tracks when a passenger train came speeding out of the darkness upon them; plaintiff, shouting a warning at his wife, jumped clear, but she failed and was struck and killed.

The only known witnesses were plaintiff, the engineer, Mr. Harry Fuller, and Mr. Sam Steele, Jr.,’ the' fireman. Extensive pretrial discovery was employed by counsel for both parties, including the…