Geier v. Scandrett

On March 14, 1937, at about 7:30 in the evening, Charles Geier, twenty-four years of age, who was plaintiff’s son, was driving his automobile south on Highway 57 between the city of Cedarburg and the village of Thiensville. The main line of defendants’ railroad intersects the highway diagonally about three miles south of Cedarburg, the railroad running in a southwesterly-northeasterly direction. A short distance south of the crossing, Highway 57 curves to the west and then to the east around a hill known as the Fox Farm hill. As it proceeds north out of Thiensville, the railroad right of way…