Dimond v. Terminal Railroad Assn.

This is an action for compensatory and punitive damages on account of personal injuries sustained by plaintiff when the automobile in which she was riding as a guest collided with one of defendant's trains. The automobile struck a coal car near the center of a long freight train, as the train moved slowly over a railroad crossing on Highway No. 3 in the Village of Monsanto, a suburb of East St. Louis, Illinois.

Plaintiff in one count charged defendant with "willful, wanton, reckless and malicious acts of negligence and carelessness," in knowingly maintaining the crossing without suitable…