Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. Young

The appellee sued and recovered for personal injuries sustained by him in a collision of a train with his wagon at the crossing of a highway and the railway of the then Ohio & Mississippi Railway Company, since consolidated with other companies, and constituting the appellant.

The complaint alleged that the crossing was upon a sharp descending grade, and the railway for a half mile north of the crossing ran through a cut thirty feet deep; that two hundred feet east of the highway and within twenty feet of the railway was a large, tall frame building which obstructed a view to the railway by…