Ballmer, Admx. v. Penna. Rd. Co.

This was an action for the alleged wrongful death of Ralph Ballmer, brought by plaintiff, his widow, as administratrix of his estate against the defendants, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as operating lessee, and the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway Company as owner and lessor, of a double track railroad extending through the city of Bucyrus, Ohio.

About three o’clock on the bright afternoon of March 11, 1932, decedent, alone in his automobile, was driving north on Whetstone street in the eastern edge of that city. When he was crossing the northerly track of defendants’ railroad,…