Rathbone ex rel. Rathbone v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

Here is another railway-crossing case. It was an action by a husband and son for the death of Bessie Rathbone, wife of one of the plaintiffs and the mother of the other.

Bessie Rathbone and her son, while on an errand for her husband, *258were traveling northward on a public road in a Reo speed-wagon, approaching the defendant’s railway crossing at the village of Hallowell. At that' point the defendant’s railway consisted of a main line and sidetrack, running east and west. The sidetrack was about 9 feet south of the main track. On the east side…