Lenning v. Des Moines & Central Iowa Railroad

The defendant operates an electric railway line between Des Moines and Perry in this state. It also operates a branch line extending from the main line at the village of Moran northward to Woodward. It also maintains a Y, for the purpose of switching in the near vicinity of the junction between the main line and the Woodward line. The accident under consideration occurred about 4 P.M., March 17, 1928, at a point where the main line intersects a highway upon which the decedent was traveling. The highway extends north and south, and the decedent was traveling south. The railway line extended…