Grand Trunk Western Railway Co. v. Cather

This is an action by Doris Cather against the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company for personal injuries occasioned by reason of a collision between an automobile in which the plaintiff was riding and a locomotive of appellant, at the point where the railroad tracks cross Olive Street in the city of South Bend. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $3,000. The defendant has appealed and assigned as error the overruling of its motion for a new trial.

The complaint charges that appellant’s tracks, at the point where they cross the street, ran in a northeasterly direction;…