Danville & Western Railway Co. v. Chattin

Norman Chattin, plaintiff below, was injured when the automobile in which he was riding was struck by a train of. the defendant railway company at a grade crossing. He recovered a verdict and judgment which the railway company here seeks to have reversed on the ground that the negligence of the driver of the automobile was the sole proximate cause of the accident.

The crossing where the accident occurred is about six .miles west of Danville. There the single track of the railroad, running approximately east and west, is crossed obliquely from northwest to southeast, the way plaintiff was…