Mo. Pac. Rd. Co., Thompson, Tr. v. Cook

This is an appeal from a judgment based upon a. verdict of a jury for $200 for damages to a 1937 automobile which was struck by a northbound passenger train when the automobile was being driven by appellee in a westerly direction across the main line crossing in the town of McRae on May 30, 1940.

The evidence showed that appellee operated a barber shop on the east side of the railway tracks. About 10 a. m. on the day of the accident appellee started to take his brother to his home on the west side of town, anil in doing so attempted to cross the tracks.

Appellee testified that when he was 35 or…