Krause v. Southern Pacific Co.

Plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries sustained through the alleged negligence of the defendants in causing him to come in contact with an overhead railroad trestle of the defendant company, which crosses, at right angles, Fourteenth street in'Oregon City. At the conclusion of plaintiff’s case in chief, the court allowed defendants ’ motion for a judgment of involuntary nonsuit. Questions presented on appeal make it necessary for a somewhat detailed statement of the facts.

About noon on November 10, 1924, plaintiff was riding in a three and one-half ton freight truck which…