St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Taylor

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

This is a railroad crossing collision case. The railway company appeals from a $10,000 judgment in favor of appellees, saying it was entitled to a directed verdict, the court erred in submitting the alleged failure of its train crew to keep a lookout to the jury as an issue and the court erroneously gave AMI (Civil) 1801 and refused its requested instruction as to the conditions under which the failure of trainmen to give the signals required by statute became irrelevant. When we view the evidence in the light most favorable to appellees, we cannot say that there was…