Wickman v. Illinois Central Railroad Company

Plaintiff’s decedent, Gerald Duane Wick-man, was killed on August 19, 1959, in a collision between a gravel truck which he was driving and a freight train of the defendant railroad company operated by the defendant Gerald R. Decker as engineer, at an intersection of a farm-to-market road and the railroad tracks. The accident happened shortly after noon. The train was proceeding east and the truck came from the north. Among the plaintiff’s specifications of negligence were failures of the defendants to sound a whistle or ring the bell at the required distances before the train approached the…