Darden v. Chicago & Northwestern Railroad

The defendant owns and operates a railway running approximately north and south through the town of Tioga, Iowa. About 70 rods south of the depot in said town is a public highway running approximately east and west, cutting the railway right of way at right angles, and about 70 rods farther south from this crossing is another highway crossing. East of the railroad track and approximately paralleling the same is a north and south highway, which, at the point in controversy, is some 35 to 40 feet east of the railway. At the point where the accident occurred, the railroad track is laid through a…