Barnes v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

After dark, about eight-thirty, in the evening of August 28, 1931, Goah S. Barnes came to his immediate death in a collision that occurred between an automobile which he was driving and a passenger train operated by defendant railway company on a public crossing at the north edge of Gillmore, a town of some 150 inhabitants in Crittendon County, Arkansas. His surviving widow and minor children brought this action in the Circuit Court of New' Madrid County, Missouri, for damages by reason of his death. The plaintiffs recovered a judgment for $10,000 and the defendant appealed. As the case must…