Kallmerten v. Cowen

Citations

• 111 F. 297
• 13 Ohio F. Dec. 703
• 1901 U.S. App. LEXIS 4379

Syllabus

<p>Railroads—Accident at Crossing—Failure to Look.</p> <p>A person who in broad daylight, without looking, and without any valid excuse for not looking, walked upon a railroad crossing with which he was familiar, and was killed by a passing train, when, if he had looked, he could have seen the train for several hundred feet before he. reached the crossing, was guilty of contributory negligence which precludes a recovery for his death.</p>