Mailhot v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

The evidence in its aspect most favorable to the plaintiffs tended to show that they were proceeding in a coupe automobile on a wide cement highway in the town of South Easton, at about twenty minutes before four o’clock of a dark and clear morning, at a rate of *279speed of about twenty-five to twenty-eight miles an hour; that they had travelled over this highway occasionally before; that the highway intersected at right angles a single-track railroad of the defendant; that when about ten feet away the male plaintiff, who was driving, first saw a freight train across the highway, without light…