Locke v. International & Great Northern Railway Co.

COLLARD, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by Otto Locke against the appellee, the International & Great Northern Railroad Company, for damages for personal injuries to plaintiff, sustained at defendant’s railroad crossing on a public road. The court below directed the jury to return a verdict for defendant, the railroad company, upon the ground that the court construed the evidence to mean that the act of defendant eonplained of was not the proximate cause of the alleged injuries, and that plaintiff, with knowledge of whatever danger existed, assumed the risk and voluntarily exposed…