Coffman Ex Rel. Coffman v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

PAUL VAN OSDOL, Special Commissioner.

Plaintiff Ernest Coffman had verdict and judgment for $270,000 against St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, hereinafter frequently referred to as “Frisco,” and James Waterman, defendants, for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff at about eight thirty in the evening of November 27, 1961, when the 1959 Pontiac station wagon, northbound on Rolla Street, in which automobile plaintiff was a passenger and which was driven by defendant James Waterman, was struck by defendant Frisco’s westbound freight train at Frisco’s grade crossing at and through the…