Peppers v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

This is an action in negligence, instituted by the parents of Mildred Peppers, a minor, who met her death on Armistice Day, 1922, due to defendant's train colliding at a railroad crossing with the automobile in which she was riding as a guest. The jury returned a verdict for defendant, plaintiffs appealing from the judgment entered thereon.

The evidence develops that the collision occurred at a point where a road crosses the defendant's tracks about a half mile west of Eureka station. The tracks there run east and west. On Armistice Day the American Legion was preparing to celebrate the…