Richey v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co.

CHAPMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an instructed verdict granted defendant below, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company, in a suit against it by appellant, Bill D. Richey, for personal injuries sustained by him when, as a passenger in an automobile, he jumped or was thrown from the automobile when its driver attempted to avoid collision with defendant’s train as it was proceeding at night across a public highway referred to in the record as Spur 228. The paved highway is described in the record as crossing the Rock Island track at a point immediately south of the South Gate of…