Haase v. Chicago, M., St. P. & P. R.

DONOVAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff, 69 years of age, commenced an action for damages on account of personal injuries sustained by reason of an accident arising out of a collision of one of defendant’s trains with a tractor he was driving across several tracks of defendant in the city of Winona. He attributes the accident to defendant’s negligence. Denying it was negligent, defendant attributes the sole cause of the accident to be plaintiff’s contributory negligence.

The undisputed facts disclose the site of the accident to be a railroad crossing made up of seven railroad tracks running in a…