Golinvaux v. Burlington, Cedar Rapids, & Northern Railway Co.

The deceased, while riding in a lumber wagon with three other men, upon a street in the suburbs! of the city of Waterloo, which crossed the defendant’s righ^of way at an acute angle — the street running north and' south, and the right of way from the southeast to the northwest— was struck by a train on the defendant’s road running from sixty to sixty-five miles per hour, and he and two of his companions were killed in the accident. The triangular piece of ground to the southeast of the crossing, from which direction the train was coming, was obstructed by frees and buildings so as to more or…