Cash v. New York Central Railroad

Mr. Presiding Justice Fulton

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant filed a complaint in the circuit court of Vermilion county in the first count of which he alleged in substance: that the plaintiff’s intestate, on the night of September 7, 1935, was injured and killed when the automobile in which she was riding as a guest, west on U. S. highway No. 36, about a mile south and a mile west of Chrisman, Illinois, ran head-on into the east side and about midway of a freight train standing north and south over this highway crossing at grade; that the crossing was extra-hazardous and…