Aldridge v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

This case was before us at the March Term, 1923. The following opinion rendered by Trimble, P. J., at that term is hereby adopted as the opinion of the court on rehearing:

“ Plaintiff, in a Ford automobile the top of which was down, was going south on Fourth street in the unincorporated village of Strasburg, Missouri, approaching defendant’s railroad crossing. Upon reaching it, he was struck and severely injured by an eastbound fast-mail train going fifty-five or sixty miles an hour. He *219instituted this action for damages based upon excessive speed and failure to give the statutory crossing…