Plumb v. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Company

This is a law action to recover for personal injury and damage to plaintiff’s 1953 Mercury Tudor sedan resulting from a collision between it and defendant railway’s two-car passenger train at a highway crossing about 8 a.m., January 21, 1955. The train’s engineer was a codefendant with the railway company but on their motion, at the close of the evidence, the court dismissed the ease as to the engineer. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff of $15,129.60 and from judgment thereon defendant M, & St. L. Ry. Co. appealed.

It is not clear whether plaintiff or a fellow worker named Baxley was…