Kick v. Franklin

This is an action for personal injuries received by' respondent in a crossing collision between an automobile driven by him and a train operated by appellants. The collision occurred at a point where a public road crosses the Wabash tracks in Clay County about one mile west of Missouri City. For some distance east of this crossing the railroad runs along the base of a bluff about twenty-five or thirty feet high. There is a state highway running along the top of the bluff parallel with the railroad. The highway and the railroad run generally from east to west. From this highway there is a side…