Baltimore & O. R. v. Goodman

MOORMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for damages for the death of Nathan Goodman resulting-from the collision of a truck with a railroad train at a grade crossing in an unincorporated village in Montgomery county, Ohio. The collision occurred in the daytime. The truck was moving eastwardly on the public highway and the train was running in a southwesterly direction. Plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that deceased reduced the speed of the truck, when about 40 feet from the crossing, from 10 or 12 miles an hour to 5 or 6 miles at which rate he was moving at the time of the collision; that…