Chicago, R. I. & G. Ry. Co. v. Vinson

MARTIN, Justice.

In July, 1931, L. M. Vinson and a companion were engaged in hauling wheat by a truck to an elevator at Texhoma. Their route of travel was southwesterly-northeasterly along the line of appellant’s railway for a distance of some four miles, where it turned at right angles and crossed the railroad track. Vinson’s companion was driving the truck. He testified, in substance, that, when he approached this crossing, and -about fifty feet from same, he stopped the truck and looked both ways for an approaching train, but neither saw nor heard any. He proceeded toward the crossing at a…