Price v. Reed

This appeal is from an award of the full Industrial Board. To the appellants’ application for compensation the appellees addressed their special answer, alleging that the death of appellants’ decedent was due to his commission of a misdemeanor, in that he violated a statute of this state which requires any person operating a vehicle who approaches a railroad crossing at grade, to stop when certain signals are warning of the approach of a train, and not proceed until he can do so safely. (§ 47-2114, Burns’ 1940 Replacement). The board found that the proximate cause of the accidental injury…