Roganville Lumber Co. v. Gulf, Beaumont & Kansas City Railway Co.

This suit was brought by the Roganville Lumber Company to recover of the defendant, the Gulf, Beaumont Kansas City Railway Company, damages for five logging' cars destroyed in a collision between one of defendant's work trains and plaintiff's logging train. He sought to recover other items of damage also, but in view of the disposition of this appeal they need not be stated.

The defendant pleaded contributory negligence on the part of plaintiff in operating its log train without orders from defendant, and negligence on the part of the operatives of the train in failing to protect it by signals…