Gulf, Mobile & Ohio R. Co. v. Williamson

GARDNER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered on a jury verdict in an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by appellee in a collision between his automobile and appellant’s railroad train at a grade crossing at a point about one-quarter of a mile south of Percy, Illinois. We shall refer to the parties as they appeared in the trial court.

In his complaint plaintiff alleging that he was in the exercise of due care for his safety, charged that he was struck with great force by a railroad coal car which was being backed across a railroad…