Elliott v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

Clyde Elliott, eighteen years of age, was driving an automobile in a southeasterly direction along First street in the city of Pleasant Hill about four A. M., of March 22, 1931. Defendant’s railroad crossed said street at grade in a general northwesterly and southeasterly direction. The street paving was a concrete slab, and on the crossing a train of dark colored coal cars was permitted by the defendant to remain standing for thirty minutes or more across said street completely blocking all traffic on said street which was extensively used at all hours of the day or night by all kinds of…