Simmons v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

On April 29, 1932, at about 5:20 o’clock in the afternoon, a gas-electric motorcar train operated by the defendant-appellant, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, collided with a light Chevrolet truck driven by Floyd H. Simmons at a highway crossing southeast of Farmington, Iowa. This crossing is just beyond the town limits. The appellant’s right of way extends through the town of Farmington in a northwesterly and southeasterly direction. Highway No. 3, a paved thoroughfare, extends across the railway tracks and right of way in an easterly and westerly direction immediately…