Lodder v. Western Pac. R.

WADE, Justice.

Defendants Western Pacific Railroad Company and Richard White, locomotive hostler or engineer, appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff Merlene Lodder damages for personal injuries sustained from a collision between the automobile in which she was riding and a three-unit Diesel locomotive. The accident occurred on December 19, 1949 after 9:00 p.m. while she was riding toward the west with her husband in his automobile on Second South Street in Salt Lake City where it intersects with Fourth West Street. A heavy snow had recently fallen and it was still snowing and very slippery.

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