Kanass v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

Plaintiff’s tractor was struck by a freight train at a private crossing on the farm of plaintiff. At the time of the collision plaintiff was driving the tractor, to *50which was attached a trailer loaded with gravel from a pit on the farm. It appeared that for several years gravel had been hauled from this pit across the tracks by plaintiff and those in his employ, and that defendant ran four passenger and several freight trains daily upon the line.

The tracks extended in a northerly and southerly direction and the road used by plaintiff crossed the tracks approximately at right angles. Beginning…