Dilliner v. Joyce

Madeline Dilliner commenced this action at law against Patrick H. Joyce and Luther M. Walter, trustees of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company, a corporation, to recover damages on account of an injury that she suffered when an automobile in which she was riding ran into the side of a Chicago Great Western train at a point north of Des Moines in Polk County, Iowa.

The defendants filed answer denying each and every material allegation. There was a trial, at which evidence was offered and at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the defendants made a motion for a directed verdict, which…