Northern Pac. Ry. Co. v. Robison

MATHEWS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a Minnesota corporation, operates a railroad which crosses at grade a public highway (Permanent Highway No. 32, also known as Española Road) in Spokane County, Washington. At that crossing, on July 18, 1941, an automobile driven by Wayne Robison, hereafter called decedent, collided with the locomotive of a passenger train operated by appellant, and decedent was killed. As administratrix of decedent’s estate, appellee, a citizen of Washington, brought an action against appellant for damages in the sum of $59,636, alleging that the collision was caused by…