Chicago, B. & Q. R. v. Ruan Transp. Corp.

RIDDICK, Circuit Judge.

These appeals are from judgments rendered on jury verdicts in actions brought by appellees, Ruan Transport Corporation and William D. Hawley, against the appellant, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. Company, to recover damages sustained by appellees as the result of a collision between one of appellant’s passenger trains and a gasoline transport truck owned by appellee, Ruan Transport Corporation, and driven at the time of the collision by its employee, William D./Hawley. The transport truck was in two units, a tractor and a trailer tank loaded with 6,300 gallons…