Herring v. Franklin

PEB CUBIAM:

Action to recover damages for personal injuries. Charles H. Herring, Jr., was riding in a truck being driven by his employee, C. H. Behring, when the truck was struck by defendant’s passenger train at the intersection of Polk Street and the defendant’s railroad tracks in the city of Brunswick, Missouri. Herring brought this suit to recover damages for the injuries he received.

The petition alleged negligence on the part of the defendant in violating the speed ordinance of the city of Brunswick, in failing to give sufficient warning of the train’s approach, and in failing to sound…