Napier v. Southern Pacific Co.

McAllister, c. j.

This is an action brought by the administratrix of the estate of Jerry Lue Eanes against Southern Pacific Co. to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of said decedent, a fifteen year old girl. The court directed a verdict for defendant and plaintiff appeals.

The accident occurred at about three o’clock in the afternoon on July 20, 1953, at a point where defendant’s main line track is crossed by a county road in the vicinity of Westfir in Lane county. The road runs in an easterly and westerly direction and the railroad in a southerly and northerly direction. Jerry Lue…