Sharp v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Plaintiff, as alleged, was driving east in an automobile on a highway about five miles west of Lincoln. The highway is a continuation of west O street, one of Lincoln’s main business thoroughfares, and is a part of the road then known as the Omaha, Lincoln and Denver highway. The highway is paved for about eight miles west of the city, and at a point about five miles west of the corporate limits it intersects a crossing of defendant railroad. In 1918 the railroad tracks Avere elevated several feet at the street intersection and a railroad bridge Avas constructed by the company over the…