Bangley v. Virginian Railway Co.

Lloyd W. Bangley, hereinafter called plaintiff, was seriously injured about 1 o’clock a. m. on July 20, 1951, when a milk truck that he was driving across the tracks of the Virginian Railway Company was struck by its engine pulling a train of twenty-six cars. He instituted action against the Company and L. W. Steger, the engineer, and from an adverse verdict and judgment, he obtained an appeal.

Where the accident occurred, the double-tracked railroad extends from north to south, and Jordan avenue, a hard-surfaced public road along which plaintiff was driving, extends almost in an easterly and…