Rentfrow v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad

This matter involves a claim of negligence in connection with a train-automobile accident at a grade crossing. On May 27, 1964, at about 6 a.m. a freight train, westbound for Chicago, arrived at this crossing, stopped and backed over at a switch onto the eastbound tracks in order to permit defendant’s nearly-due westbound passenger train to pass it. It was the claimed intention of the crew of the freight train to start the freight train and pull it across the crossing so as to block the crossing to motor vehicles while the passenger train passed. The freight train proceeded to a point about…