Leman v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad

Plaintiff, a passenger in an automobile driven by her husband, suffered injury as the result of a collision between the automobile in which she was riding and a diesel switch engine (without cars attached) owned and operated by defendant railroad company.

Suits were instituted by both plaintiff wife and her husband, claiming defendant (1) negligently propelled the switch engine onto the highway knowing the operator “could not see oncoming traffic from the south”; (2) propelled “its diesel switch engine at a high, dangerous and unlawful rate of speed”; and (3) failed “to ring the engine bell or…