Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Creek

Suit by the appellee, as administrator of the estate of Matilda McClintic, who was killed on a highway crossing by one of the appellant’s locomotive engines.

The complaint charges, in substance, that the decedent’s death was caused by the actionable negligence of the appellant, in this, that appellant had allowed a hedge, together with trees, bushes and weeds, to grow along the line of its track, and adjacent to said crossing, to such height and so densely that for a long distance all view of the track was cut off from persons on the highway; that the same obstructions, together with buildings…