Pippy v. Oregon Short Line R. Co.

This action was brought by the plaintiff and appellant to recover damages for personal injuries. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence a motion for nonsuit was granted on the ground of contributory negligence and the action dismissed. He appeals assigning the ruling as error. By his complaint, so far as here material, he in substance alleged that the accident occurred at a public crossing on Eighth West and Fourteenth North streets in Salt Lake City by a collision of a passenger train operated by the defendant and a Ford motortruck driven by the plaintiff; that at the intersection of…