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

JACKSON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by plaintiff, Ova Wilson, from an order sustaining defendants’ demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence in an action in which plaintiff sued the defendant railroad company and its engineer for damages resulting from the death of her husband, Cheque Wilson, in an accident at a railroad crossing about 3 miles south of Duncan, Oklahoma.

Wilson was driving his automobile west on a county road approaching the railroad intersection at a slight angle. The train, driven by the engineer and co-defendant, Kenega, was approaching from the south. In the ensuing collision,…