Frese v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

This is an action in Missouri under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act for the death of the plaintiff’s (petitioner’s) intestate, caused by a collision in Illinois .between engines of the defendant and the Wabash Railroad Company at a grade crossing. The deceased, Frese, was the engineer in charge of the defendant’s engine. A statute of Illinois [Hurd’s Rev.'Stats., 1916, c. 114, § 75] required that “All trains running on any railroad in this State, when approaching a crossing with another railroad upon the same level, or when approaching a swing or draw bridge, in use as such, shall be…