Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Burton

The appellee, as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Thomas S. Burton, sued to recover damages for negligently causing the death of said Thomas at the crossing of the appellant’s railway and Center street, in the incorporated town of Royal Center.

The complaint alleges that the deceased, while attempting to cross said railway in his buggy, approached the crossing from the east on said street and drove his team in a slow walk and looked and listened, but “was *360unable to see or hear any engine or train of cars in motion on account of the obstruction of his view by cars and…