Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. Trowbridge

— The facts pleaded as the appellee’s cause of action are, in brief, these: The railway of the appellant crosses a highway known as the Huron and Mitchell road. For a distance of one-half mile west of the crossing the highway and the railway run on parallel lines, the space between them being one hundred feet; for this distance the view of one travelling upon the highway is unobstructed, and persons in the service of the appellant, engaged in work upon the railway, could plainly see any one travelling along the public road. On the 4th day of August, 1887, the appellee was riding along the…