Pennsylvania Railroad v. Stilabower

In this action the appellee, Emerson R. Stilabower, recovered a judgment in the amount of $2,000 against the appellant, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, because of personal injuries to himself and property damage to his oil truck which resulted from a collision between a locomotive of appellant and the truck of appellee while the same was being driven over a public street and railroad crossing in Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana.

The complaint of appellee, which was in two paragraphs, alleged facts which showed, in substance, the following: That on April 24, 1936, the appellant operated its…