Gann v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

The plaintiff had a verdict and judgment below for $10,000 for damages for personal injuries against the defendants, Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railway Company, and George U. Liston, its locomotive engineer. Both defendants appeal. The case grows out of a grade crossing collision at Jamesport, Missouri, on the afternoon of June 17, 1922. The respondent was riding in the back seat of a Ford touring car driven by one Tobe Gillilan and owned by Frank Gay, who was the third member of the party. As the automobile was passing along a public road across the railroad station grounds it was struck…