Harwood v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This case grows out of a grade-crossing accident which occurred in Cowley county. The Missouri Pacific railroad runs nearly east and west and a highway north and south. The plaintiff, D. M. Harwood, was driving a Ford car over this highway, and he alleged that the railroad company negligently allowed vegetation, including weeds, grass and underbrush, to grow up to its track on its right of way, which obstructed the view of the railroad so that one traveling on the highway was not aware of *333it until he was upon the track; that no crossing…