NORTHERN PAC. RY. CO. v. ROBISON

No. 10524.

143 F.2d 352 (1944)

NORTHERN PAC. RY. CO. v. ROBISON.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

June 2, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cannon, McKevitt & Fraser, of Spokane, Wash., for appellant.

Bernard L. Swerland and Lester P. Edge, both of Spokane, Wash., for appellee.

Before WILBUR, MATHEWS, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


MATHEWS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a Minnesota corporation, operates a railroad which crosses at grade a public highway (Permanent Highway No. 32, also known as Espanola Road) in Spokane County, Washington. At that crossing, on July 18, 1941, an automobile driven by Wayne Robison, hereafter called decedent, collided with the locomotive of a passenger train operated by appellant, and decedent was killed. As administratrix of decedent's estate, appellee, a citizen of...

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