WABASH RY. CO. v. ZAYAC

No. 3992.

30 F.2d 764 (1929)

WABASH RY. CO. v. ZAYAC.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

February 21, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. V. Hill, of Hillsboro, Ill., for plaintiff in error.

J. Earl Mayor, of Hillsboro, Ill., for defendant in error.

Before ALSCHULER, PAGE, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


PAGE, Circuit Judge.

On June 14, 1925, at 5:55 a. m., the engine of defendant's passenger train of nine cars struck the automobile of, and killed, John Zayac, on the highway where it crosses three of defendant's tracks, three blocks inside of the city limits of Staunton, Ill., a place of some 6,000 people. The plat below shows the crossing:

Standing at a, facing the crossing to the west b, one would be within a 20-degree angle, formed...

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