St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company v. Davis

DAVISON, Justice.

This is an appeal by St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company and Leo McKinney (defendants below) from an order of the trial court granting a new trial to plaintiff, Frankie Nancy Davis, Administratrix of the Estate of Loyd Frank Davis, deceased, after verdict for defendants in a wrongful death action.

Plaintiff’s action was for damages for the death of her husband as a result of a collision between a truck being driven by him and a freight train of the defendant company, at about 3 :00 o’clock in the afternoon of March 16, 1961, a short distance outside' of the city limits of…