Fish v. Southern Pacific Co.

This action arose out of a collision between a railroad train and an automobile. The collision took place at a grade crossing on Mill Street in the city of Salem, in broad daylight and clear weather, at about ten o’clock a. m., on July 19,1940. Mill.Street runs east and west, and, at the intersection, the defendant railroad company’s main track runs a little fo the east of due south, crossing the street at an oblique angle. East of the main track and parallel thereto, there is a switch track. From the east, the street approaches'the crossing on a rising grade. The plaintiff and respondent, a…