BRUNK v. CHICAGO, B. & Q. R. CO.

No. 14785.

207 F.2d 354 (1953)

BRUNK et al. v. CHICAGO, B. & Q. R. CO.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

October 20, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul W. Steward, Des Moines, Iowa (A. B. Crouch and L. J. Holroyd, Jr., Des Moines, Iowa, on the brief), for appellants.

John Hale, Burlington, Iowa (J. C. Pryor, Burlington, Iowa, and Thomas J. Guthrie, Des Moines, Iowa, on the brief), for appellee.

Before GARDNER, Chief Judge, and WOODROUGH and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.


THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

This is an action commenced September 20, 1951, by J. L. Brunk, a citizen of Iowa, against the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, an Illinois corporation, to recover damages in the sum of $40,000 for personal injuries sustained by him in a collision between a tractor and trailer truck which he was driving and a train operated by defendant's employees at a crossing near the town of Alma, Nebraska. The action was commenced in the...

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