Hess v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY I. EAGER, Special Commissioner.
Plaintiff here seeks $300,000 for personal injuries suffered in a railroad crossing accident. There was a unanimous verdict for the defendant. The injury occurred on September 16, 1966, at a crossing of Creve Coeur Mill Road and the Rock Island tracks in St. Louis County; plaintiff was traveling generally south in a Volkswagen and the freight train, with three diesel units and 72 cars, was traveling east at a speed generally agreed to be 35 miles an hour. We shall refer to the crossing as the Mill Road crossing. The road was a two-lane asphalt road, 20…
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