DAVENPORT v. WABASH RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 53849.

435 S.W.2d 641 (1968)

Elsie A. DAVENPORT, Respondent, v. WABASH RAILROAD COMPANY, a Corporation, Eunice Harold Potter and Charles T. Bagby, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

December 31, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spencer, Hines & Petri, Columbia, for respondent.

Terence C. Porter, Columbia, for appellants; Welliver, Porter & Cleveland, Columbia, of counsel.


HENLEY, Judge.

Action by a widow for damages for the wrongful death of her husband arising out of a grade crossing collision involving the decedent's eastbound automobile and a southbound Wabash Railroad Company (hereinafter Wabash) mixed passenger and freight train in Boone County, Missouri. Verdict and judgment were for plaintiff and against the defendants for $11,542. Defendants' after-trial motion was confined to a motion to set aside the verdict and judgment...

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