Webster v. Canadian Pacific Railway Co.

The plaintiff was riding in an automobile owned and driven by one McNair when it was struck by one of the defendant’s engines on a grade crossing in the village of Bast Barnet, and he received the injuries for which he is seeking to recover. He had a verdict and judgment below, and the case is here on defendant’s exceptions.

The negligence charged is failure to give the statutory signals, failure to sound the bell which defendant had installed at the crossing, and excessive speed of the engine at the crossing. At the close of all the evidence defendant moved for a directed verdict' on the…