Gallup v. Toledo Term. Rd. Co.

Robert Gallup, while driving a truck, collided with a train of the defendant, the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Co., known as the Nickel Plate, at a crossing in Toledo, Ohio, and subsequently died from injuries sustained by him.

The Nickel Plate trains were operated on the tracks of the Toledo Terminal Railroad Co. pursuant to an agreement between them. It seems, as Gallup, proceeding in an easterly direction approached the tracks, a southbound Hocking Valley train passed over the crossing on the westerly track, there being two tracks at this point. After this train had passed…