Bibbs v. Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad

STEWART, Judge.

This is a tort action for damages in the aggregate sum of $6,370 resulting from a collision at a railroad crossing between an automobile driven by one of the original plaintiffs, James E. Robinson, in which the other plaintiff, Willie Bibbs, was a passenger, and a diesel switch engine owned by defendant, Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad, operated by their employee and the other defendant, Charles J. Wommer. The defendants by answer denied any negligence on their part and pleaded contributory negligence on the part of each of the plaintiffs. At the close of the plaintiffs’…