Moeller v. United Railways Co.

Defendant maintains and operates a double-track electric railroad, running from the western limits of the city of St. Louis west to Creve Coeur Lake, in St. Louis county. Its road crosses the Colorado steam railroad track on a wooden trestle, about three miles east of Creve Coeur Lake; west of, and running to the trestle, is a fill or embankment about forty-two feet deep; on top of this embankment, and reaching to the east end of it, are platforms about forty-eight feet long and six feet four inches wide, maintained for the accommodation of passengers to get on and off defendant’s cars. The…