Despres v. Boston & Maine Railroad

The decedent left her home in East Jaffrey at 6:40 o’clock on the morning of the accident to carry her daughter and two others to their work at a tack factory. This factory was situated south of the crossing where the accident occurred. The train which collided with the decedent’s automobile was one of the defendant’s regular passenger trains, and consisted of only two cars including the car in which the motive power was installed. It usually reached the crossing at 6:40, but on that particular morning it was a few minutes late.

The decedent drove over the crossing at 6:50 from the north and…