Jasper County Lumber Co. v. McNeill

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff McNeill, having been injured in a collision between his automobile and a tramcar, sued to recover damages from the Jasper County Lumber Company, owner of the tramcar. The collision occurred at night at a point where a state highway and defendant’s tram railroad intersect practically at right angles. As plaintiff was driving his automobile south on a straight stretch of the -highway, a so-called dinkey train made up of two tramcars coupled together, with the one in front which was equipped with the motor of a Ford truck pulling the other, the two having a…