James v. Iowa Central Railway Co.

The only question submitted is whether the cause should have been submitted to the jury, on the theory that, notwithstanding decedent’s negligence, defendant’s em*233ployees discovered her perilous situation in time for them, in the exercise of ordinary care, to have avoided the collision. She was a woman of 42 years, wholly deaf, and was struck by a train on defendants’ main track between Fourth and Fifth Streets in the city of Marshalltown. This track ran northwesterly from defendants’ station. The train, consisting of engine, three passenger coaches, and baggage car, came in at about 9 o’clock…