Grand Trunk Ry. Co. v. Blay

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The defendant in error was a chauffeur driving a motorcar of Mr. Prouty over a grade crossing between Lenoxviile and Waterville, in the province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, when he was struck by an engine pulling a work train operated by the plaintiff in error and severely injured. The charge of negligence was the failure to give timely warning of the approach of the train by whistle or bell. The verdict was for the defendant in error, and there was sufficient evidence to require the submission of the question of negligence of the plaintiff in error to the jury…