Sohl v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

1‘ «mSíbutory nOgligGIlCG I. A line of the defendant’s railway extends from Davenport in a southwesterly direction through Rockingham and Nahant. Between these latter places is what is known as the Nahant crossing, where the highway, running north -and south, passes over the railway. The angle is 315 degrees. Besides the westbound, or north, track, and the east-bound-track below it, there is a side track to the south. The railway is about 5 feet above the surface, the highway for a distance of 70 feet north of it having a 7% grade.

Shortly after 10 o’clock in the morning of March 30, 1915,…