Goben v. Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Ry. Co.

Plaintiff’s action is for damages resulting from a collision at a railway crossing in the city of Kirksville. The petition counts on a violation of the humanitarian rule, charging,that there was an ordiuance in force limiting the speed of railroad trains in said city to seven miles per hour; that defendant’s train was being negligently run at a greater speed, to-wit — thirty miles per hour, and negligently struck plaintiff on the crossing and injured him and his automobile; that while plaintiff was approaching the track oblivious of danger the operatives of the engine saw or could have seen…