Irwin v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

A Ford sedan and branch-line train of defendant, running backwards from Malden to Clarkton, collided at a public crossing in Clarkton at 5 :45 p. m. on January 25, 1926. The sedan was driven and controlled by Owen James, who was nineteen years of age and an employee of an automobile sales-agency in Clarkton. Plaintiff, age twenty-one, and Cinda Cox, age nineteen, were riding on the front seat as guests of Owen. Owen was on the left at the wheel, plaintiff on the right at an open window, and Cinda in the middle. It was “dusky dark,” but objects and persons could be seen. Owen and Cinda were…