Missouri Pac. R. R. Co., Thompson v. Johnson

Appellees (plaintiffs below) joined in a suit against appellant to compensate personal injuries alleged to have been received by them when an automobile in which they were riding was struck on a crossing by one of appellant’s passenger trains. The allegations of negligence are (a) failure of the operatives of the train to give the statutory signals; (b) failure to keep a lookout and the 'failure to keep a flagman at the crossing in question; (c) operating the train at an excessive rate of speed; and (d) failure of those in charge of the train after they discovered, or by the exercise of…