Speer v. Southwest Missouri Railroad

This is a suit for personal injuries. The plaintiff, in company with the owner of an automobile, was injured by reason of a collision between the automobile and one of defendant’s electric street-railway cars. The plaintiff charged in his petition that the electric street-railway car was being run in excess of six miles an hour, in violation of a city ordinance of Webb City, Missouri, and that the de*266fendant negligently failed to give any warning of the approach of said car as said car was approaching a public street crossing. The answer was (1) a general denial, and (2) contributory…