Burzio ex rel. Burzio v. Joplin & Pittsburg Railway Co.

The opinion of. the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

The defendant appeals from a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff for injuries sustained by him in a railroad-crossing accident.

The plaintiff, a boy ten years old, was riding with his mother in the rear seat of an automobile driven' by his father. The father attempted to drive the automobile across the railway track in front of an approaching electric car. At the *288place of the accident, the track ran in a straight line for some distance north and south, and ran parallel with a public road near the railroad right of way. John Burzio,…