Spokane County v. Great Northern Railway Co.

A well traveled county road, running in a general easterly and westerly direction, crosses at right angles four tracks maintained by defendant, Great Northern Railway Company, at a point near Mead, in Spokane county. During the month of September, 1933, plaintiff, Spokane county, owned a road grader which on the afternoon of September 27 was in charge of Clarence Sharkey, an employee of the county, who was driving the grader in an easterly direction along the county road. Two of the four tracks maintained at the point of crossing by defendant were main tracks, while two were secondary or…