Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. of Texas v. Thomas

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Scott Snodgrass, Jr., sued the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company of Texas for damages caused by-a collision between an automobile in which Snodgrass was riding and said company’s train. A jury found for the plaintiff (5) that immediately before the collision the train was traveling at “an excessive speed under the facts and circumstances then and there existing” ; (6) that this was negligence and (7) a proximate cause of the collision. But the jury found for'defendant (14) that Snod-grass failed to warn the driver of the automobile of the approach of defendant’s…