Easterwood v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Rd.

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment entered upon a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $15,000.

On the night of September 16, 1953, plaintiff was driving east on Napoleon Street in Fremont, Ohio. Defendant’s single track, running from northeast to southwest, intersects Napoleon Street at an angle at grade. Defendant’s engine and tender, engaged in a backing movement southwest pulling two freight cars, and the automobile driven by plaintiff collided at the grade crossing with resultant injury to plaintiff. A single railway cross-buck sign was located from plaintiff’s direction…