Wessman v. Scandrett

Loring, Chief Justice.

Plaintiffs appeal from orders denying their motions to vacate a dismissal of their actions made at the close of their case and to grant a new trial. The question presented by these appeals is whether defendants were guilty of negligence in failing to provide warning signs at their railroad crossing at a point a mile west of Brownton in this state.

About 4:40 o’clock of the morning of October 30, 1942, the plaintiff Arthur Wessman and his daughter LaVonne, together with other passengers, were driving south on state aid highway No. 15 and, in a dense fog, struck the side of…