Rowe v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

LEE, C. J. —

Suit for damages due to collision with standing box-car. Defendant and appellant, Northern Pacific Railway Company, has long maintained a grade crossing over Main Street in the city of Moscow. From the south, it is approached by a standard, twenty foot, gravel highway, the last .sixty-five feet thereof consisting of a plank bridge maintained by the city, with the exception of that portion over which appellant’s trains operate. In January, 1931, the city installed a modern incandescent light 73.2 feet south of the crossing. About the year 1916, a similar light had been installed by…