Browder v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

Appellant was injured and his truck damaged when he undertook to cross St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company tracks in front of a mainline passenger train.

A “blinker” warning is maintained at the Main Street crossing in Stuttgart where the collision occurred. It was alleged that the railway company failed to operate the electrically-controlled flashlight system in such manner as to warn the plaintiff of an approaching train in sufficient time; that the company negligently failed to sound the locomotive whistle or ring the bell; that in passing through Stuttgart a…