Williams v. Mason City & Fort Dodge Railway Co.

Errors assigned relate to appellee’s contributory negligence, the admission of evidence, and the court’s wrongful submission of the issues to the jury. Attention now will be directed accordingly:

I. At the outset it is contended that the proximate cause of appellee’s injury and resulting damages was her own contributory negligence. Appellants’ argument is that such carelessness appears in the record as a matter of law.

The place of the accident was at a point where the railway tracks cross Eighteenth Street, a paved 'thoroughfare in Fort Dodge, and the time was between 11 and 12 o’clock in the…