Pennsylvania Railroad v. Winamac Cement Products Co.

Action to recover the value of an auto mobile truck destroyed by a backing engine at a public highway crossing in the town of Winamac, Indiana.

The complaint charges that the said engine was negligently backed across said highway crossing without, sounding any whistle, ringing any bell, or showing or displaying any light on the rear of the tender, the end of said locomotive engine and tender first approaching, and without giving any signal, and without any warning of the approach of said locomotive engine and tender, and that appellant caused said locomotive engine and tender to collide with…