Tilghman v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.

This is a law action to recover from defendants Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. and Carroll Pletcher, engineer on its freight train, for personal injuries to plaintiff, Charles Tilghman, driver of a truck which collided with the train at a grade crossing near the northwest edge of the town of Woolstock. Defendants appeal from judgment against them on jury verdict for plaintiff under the doctrine of last clear chance.

Errors are assigned in: rulings that a jury question was piesented under the last-clear-ehance doctrine, giving instructions 7 and 11 to the jury, excluding certain testimony, and…