Hobbs v. Union Pacific R. R. Co.

Shortly before 3 o’clock in the afternoon of November 12, 1938, respondents, who live on their farm four miles east of St. Anthony, together with their neighbor, Mr. Jacobson, and their son, Merlin, twenty-two years old, drove to St. Anthony in their automobile to which was attached a four-wheeled trailer loaded with wheat. The wheat was being taken to St. Anthony to be sold. After reaching St. Anthony they started north along a street which crosses the tracks of appellant Union Pacific Railroad Company. In attempting to cross the tracks the automobile collided with the motor car of a two-car…