Branson v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Shortly after nine o’clock in the forenoon of October 8, 1932, John K. Peterson drove a loaded truck, to which was attached a hay rake, leaving a farm he had occupied during about three years previously. The main line of the Northern Pacific Railway Company ran through the farm, in an easterly and westerly direction, parallel to and a short distance south of a public highway toward which Peterson was going. Peterson drove the truck along a private road which crossed the railroad track at a private crossing, which road and crossing were used by all who had occasion to visit his premises, and…