Opinion
Gen. No. 9,914. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed January 26, 1944 Rehearing denied May 2, 1944
AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES, § 207.2 — sufficiency of evidence to sustain verdicts for plaintiffs in railroad crossing death cases. In action for death of plaintiffs' intestates who were fatally injured when, in nighttime, at village crossing where intestates' view was obstructed, whose gates were open, and at which watchman was not on duty, automobile in which intestates were riding was struck by defendant's freight train which was traveling at speed of approximately 50 miles per hour, held that it could not be said that jury's verdicts for plaintiffs were against manifest weight of evidence.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
DOVE, P.J., dissents.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. ROBERT E. LARKIN, Judge, presiding.
Judgments affirmed. Heard in this court at the October term, 1943.
H.L. Richolson, O.M. Anderson, C.A. Conway, R.E. Skov and C.W. Krohl, for appellant;
Eldon M. Martin, of counsel;
Hibbs Pool and Chester E. Jacobsen, for appellees.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed January 26, 1944; rehearing denied May 2, 1944.