St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company v. Hovley

Appellants appeal from a judgment of $25,000 awarded appellees in the eastern district of the Lawrence circuit court, for damages growing out of a crossing collision which resulted in the death of appellees' intestate, Vincent E. Hovley.

Among the acts of negligence on the part of appellants' servants, set out in appellees' complaint, was one charging the failure to give the statutory signals in approaching the crossing in question. This one act of negligence alone was relied upon by appellees at the trial of this case and the only one submitted to the jury for its consideration.

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