Rogers v. Southern Pacific Co.

This case grows out of a collision at a railroad crossing between an automobile and a freight train of the Southern Pacific Company. The automobile was driven by the defendant Lloyd L. McKenzie. Riding with him as his guest was Betsey Lou Rogers. She was killed in the accident, and the administrator of her estate sued McKenzie, the railroad company, and Harvey E. Holzkamp, engine foreman of the train. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff against McKenzie and in favor of the other two defendants. The defendant McKenzie has appealed from the judgment against him, and the plaintiff has…