Union Pac. R. Co. v. Denver-Chicago Trucking Co., Inc

COLLET, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellee, a Nebraska corporation, obtained a verdict from a jury, upon which a judgment against defendant railroad - company was entered, awarding plaintiff damages for injuries to its semitrailer truck and cargo caused by a collision between the truck and defendant’s switch engine at 2:00 a. m., August 15, 1948, at the grade crossing of defendant’s switch track and transcontinental United States Highway 30 at the outskirts of the town of Cozad, Nebraska. The assignments of error are (1) that the evidence established plaintiff’s contributory negligence in such…