Scruggs v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of St. Clair county in favor of defendant, rendered upon a verdict directed in its favor upon the trial of the cause.

It appears from the evidence that on May 27, 1934, appellant, who was the plaintiff below, with three companions started from East St. Louis about midnig-ht for O’Fallon, the home of plaintiff. They had attended a show in Belleville, after which they drove to a tavern in East St. Louis, and then proceeded toward O’Fallon over the concrete highway known as U. S. Route No. 50. In the front seat of the car plaintiff was riding…