RALPH v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 8778.

351 P.2d 464 (1960)

Alfonzo RALPH and Beatrice Ralph, husband and wife, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a corporation, and W. E. Gaffner and Victor Hill, Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

Rehearing Denied May 10, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kramer & Walker, Twin Falls, for appellants.

Bryan P. Leverich, Salt Lake City, Utah, L. H. Anderson, E. C. Phoenix and D. A. Bybee, Pocatello, for respondents.


SMITH, Justice.

Plaintiffs, appellants, instituted this action to recover general and special damages arising from a collision between appellants' automobile operated by Beatrice Ralph and a train of respondent railroad company. The accident occurred about 1:15 o'clock a. m., October 18, 1957, at a crossing approximately seven and one-half miles southwest of Twin Falls, on U. S. Highway 93.

At the conclusion of the evidence the trial court denied defendants...

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