T. & P. R'y Co. v. Chapman

Gould, Chief Justice.

As stated by himself, and witnesses who substantially corroborate his testimony, Chapman’s case against the railway company may be condensed thus: He was driving an empty two-horse wagon, at a slow trot, eastward, on the much traveled public road from Paris to Clarksville, and Avhen about fifty feet distant (in his depositions he had said yards, but on the stand he corrects *77this and says it was feet), suddenly became aware that he was approaching a railroad crossing, not having previously known that the road crossed any railroad track. The direction of the public road and…