Coleman v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

In the evening of December 20, 1932, plaintiff, as a guest passenger in an auto driven by Wayne Perry-man, was riding from West Frankfort to Carbondale to witness a basket ball game. The highway, at the southerly limits of West Frankfort, is intersected by a line of railroad which runs to a coal mine of the Old Ben Company. A block east and south of the railway track was a smoldering pile of slag, giving off smoke which it is claimed floated over to the crossing in question and tended to obscure the visibility at that point. The highway from the north, to the railroad, is somewhat downhill,…