Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern Railway Co. v. Barnes

In the western edge of the town of Lewis, Yigo county, a public highway extends north and south. Appellant’s single track railroad extends through the town intersecting the public highway practically at grade, the direction of the former at the point of intersection, and for some distance northwestward therefrom, being north thirty-five degrees west. On September 23, 1913, at about five o’clock p. m. appellee, a child ten years old, while walking south along the highway, attempted to cross appellant’s track, whereupon she was struck by one of appellant’s trains southward bound, and was…