Miller v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

This action involves a railroad crossing collision between an automobile owned and operated by plaintiff Gilbert Dean Miller, and occupied by the other plaintiffs, and a freight train at the Santa Fe crossing of Sierra Way, in a residential section of San Bernardino. It occurred on Friday evening, April 29, 1955, about 10 p. m. The weather was clear, cold and dry and the night dark. The intersection is formed by a right-angle crossing of defendant’s single track railroad with Sierra Way, which runs in a general north-south direction. The railroad track runs east and west on a right of way…