Gombert v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.

In the city of North Tonawanda there is a highway known as Wheatfield street, which runs substantially east and west, and crosses at grade the tracks of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, which run practically north and south. The Lehigh Valley railroad uses these tracks in its traffic between Buffalo and Niagara Falls. On the 2d day of October, 1905, the plaintiff was driving across these tracks on Wheatfield street, and collided with a south-bound Lehigh Valley train. The crossing was equipped with gates operated by compressed air from a tower maintained by the New York…