Hough v. Illinois Central Railroad
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from. Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. A. B. Thornell, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for the death of Willis King, who was struck at a highway crossing on defendant’s line of road by a passing train, and instantly killed. Fuhrman was the engineer on the engine drawing the train, and he was made a party defendant.
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Appeal from. Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. A. B. Thornell, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for the death of Willis King, who was struck at a highway crossing on defendant’s line of road by a passing train, and instantly killed. Fuhrman was the engineer on the engine drawing the train, and he was made a party defendant. Defendants filed separate answers, and on the issues joined by the pleadings the case was tried to a jury, resulting in a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $8,170.00 against both defendants, which the trial court reduced to the sum of $6,170.00, and for the…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Plaintiff’s intestate, Willis King, was killed at a railway crossing of the Illinois Central Railroad, at a point between the towns of Clara and Ascott, in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, about five o’clock in the afternoon or evening of December 23, 1913. He was traveling in a top buggy drawn by a single horse, and with him was a young lady something over fifteen years of age. Deceased had started about seven o’clock in the morning of the day he was killed from the town of Blencoe, something like fifty-five miles from the place of the accident, to go to the town of Crescent to spend the holidays…
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