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

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Martin, C. J. :

About 6 o’clock on the evening of November 6, 1890, as it ivas getting dark, the plaintiff, M. B. Young, a married lady of the age of 23 years, was injured at a crossing of the defendant’s railway coming into McPherson. Her home was about eight miles northeast of town, and she left there near 5 o’clock, driving alone in a one-horse buggy, the top being down. The tracks of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Pe railroad and the defendant’s railroad are about 75 to 100 feet apart at this point. She testified *145that she crossed the Santa Fe track…