Miller v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Co.

Plaintiffs sued the railway company for damages resulting from a collision between plaintiffs’ trailer-transport and one of defendant’s locomotives. This appeal by defendant is from a verdict and judgment awarding a recovery to plaintiffs in the sum of $2600.

The scene of the collision is a railroad crossing at Second Avenue, City of Sioux Falls. The directional course of the avenue is north and south; the railway, east and west. Although the width of Second Avenue is not established, photographs before us indicate that the pavement thereon for vehicular travel is of normal width for urban…