Wilson v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Story District Court. — IIon. C. G-. Lee, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for the death of Earl P. Wilson, deceased, due to his being struck by a train on defendant’s right of way at a highway crossing in Story county, Iowa. Defendant interposed a general denial, and on the issues joined the case went to trial to a jury,- resulting in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $2,000. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
I. Deceased was a young unmarried man about nineteen years of age at the time of his demise. He was killed by a train operated on defendant’s line of railway at a highway crossing in Story county, Iowa, at about 3 o’clock a. m. July 24th, 1910. This crossing was about two miles and one-fourth, east of the town of Collins, in said county. Deceased had been working on a farm about two miles south of the crossing just prior to the collision. No one saw the accident, but deceased was driving a single horse to a light buggy, and was traveling eastward on a highway, which ran east and west. The…
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