St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. v. Robinson

This is an action for personal injuries sustained by the appellee in a collision between his pick-up truck and a freight train which was standing still at a public crossing just inside the city of G-illett. The plaintiff’s truck struck the fifth or sixth car of the eleven-car train. In appealing from a verdict and judgment for $7,500 the railroad company and its two employees contend that they were entitled to a directed verdict, and, if not, that the court erred in its instructions to the jury.

The accident happened shortly after dark on the evening of October 19, 1955. Robinson had been in…