Plante v. Canadian National Railways

This case comes to the court on separate general motions for a new trial filed on behalf of both defendants following a verdict for the plaintiff for $600 against both defendants. There are no exceptions.

The material facts are not in dispute. From the evidence it definitely and clearly appears that the plaintiff, late at night in midwinter, was travelling as a passenger in an automobile, driven by the defendant St. Laurent, along a highway in the *218City of Auburn, across which the defendant Canadian National Railways maintained a crossing at grade; that, within a few minutes prior to the time…