O'BRIEN v. Great Northern Railroad Company

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding the plaintiffs $204,000 damages for the death of Eugene J. O’Brien which resulted when an automobile he was driving collided with a Great Northern Eailway locomotive.

The accident occurred October 20, 1958, sometime after 7:00 p. m. at a point where U. S. Highway 2 crosses a Great Northern Eailway beet spur near Chinook, Montana. The spur track leads northeast from a sugar beet loading facility, crosses east-west Highway 2 at about a 45 degree angle and connects to the mainline tracks which run parallel to Highway 2 and about 150 feet north. At the…