Slaton v. Union Electric Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action for damages sustained by plaintiff while riding in an automobile which collided with a freight car which was being pushed by an electric locomotive on defendant’s street railway in Coffeyville. The city of Coffeyville was impleaded as defendant.

The Union Electric Railway Company has a railway line which runs east and west on Eighth street in Coffeyville. That street is about thirty feet wide and is paved with brick. Buckeye street crosses Eighth street in a suburban part of the city.

On Labor Day, September 8, 1942,…