New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad v. Mercantile National Bank

This action was commenced by the filing of a complaint by the plaintiff below, appellee herein, against the defendant below, appellant herein. The case was filed in the Lake Circuit Court and later venued to Newton Circuit Court where the trial was had.

The complaint alleges in substance that on or about the 7th day of September, 1952, plaintiff’s decedent, Mary Marie Black, deceased, was riding in an automobile driven by her husband, James Black, in a northerly direction on Calhoun Street in Black Oak, Gary, Indiana, where said public highway intersects the railroad of the appellant; that the…