High v. Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Co.

The appellant operates an electrically equipped interurban railway between the cities of Cedar Rapids and Waterloo. Cold Stream Avenue is a street in the outskirts of the city of Cedar Rapids. It extends east and west, and intersects the tracks of the appellant company practically at right angles. As one approaches this crossing, passing eastward on Cold Stream Avenue, it is necessary to pass through a cut that is about 1,000 feet in length, leaving a bank on the south side of Cold Stream Avenue approximately 20 feet in height. The point where it is first possible to see past the bank to the…