Brewer v. James

1. The evidence adduced on the trial pictures the locale and circumstances of the plaintiff’s son’s death substantially as follows: The plaintiff had been an employee of the defendant railroad company for a number of years, and he had occupied one of the defendant’s section houses since 1929. The section house, fronting upon the highway and, facing west, was located between the highway and the railroad track. The railroad and highway ran in northerly and southerly directions. A driveway led from the highway north of the section house to the section-house garage and from the garage continued…