Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Hamilton

FISHER, Chief Justice.

This is an.action against the railway company for damages resulting from injuries received in a collision with one of appellant’s railway trains at a public crossing. The grounds of negligence alleged in the petition consist in the failure to ring the bell or blow the whistle on the approach of the train to the public crossing, as required by law; that the train when approaching the crossing and at the time of the collision was being driven at a high rate of speed; and that the approach of the train, to persons traveling along the road and approaching the crossing, would…