LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. MOSELEY

2 Div. 341.

81 So.2d 321 (1955)

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD CO. v. Winston MOSELEY.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied June 23, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. A. Stewart, Pettus, Fuller, Reeves & Stewart, Selma, and Steiner, Crum & Baker, Montgomery, for petitioner.

John W. Drinkard, Linden, and Roy W. Kinbrough, Thomasville, opposed.


STAKELY, Justice.

We granted certiorari in order that we might consider what is known in the operation of railroads as the "headlight rule". In its opinion the Court of Appeals said:

"Also, in this State, a railroad company injuring stock by the running of its train in the night-time at such rapid rate of speed that it is impossible, by the use of ordinary means and appliances, to stop the train and prevent the injury, within the distance in which the stock...

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