Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Troy

Appellee brought suit against appellants in the circuit court of Independence county to recover damages in the sum of $650 done to his truck growing out of a collision between appellant’s passenger train and his truck at Sherill crossing between the towns of Sulphur Eock and Magness in said county, through the alleged negligence of their employees in approaching the crossing without blowing the whistle, or ringing the bell as required by’the signal statute, (§ 11135, Pope’s Digest), by failing to maintain the crossing in passable condition, and by permitting bushes to grow up on its…