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WESTERN & ATL. R. CO. v. HENDERSON

No. 519.

279 U.S. 639 (1929)

WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD v. HENDERSON ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 27, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Fitzgerald Hall, with whom Messrs. Frank Slemons and Walton Whitwell were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Reuben R. Arnold, with whom Messrs. W.E. Mann, W.G. Mann, and J.A. McFarland were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellee, Mary E. Henderson, sued to recover damages for the death of her husband. He was killed near Tunnel Hill, Georgia, at a grade crossing of a public highway and appellant's railroad, in a collision between a motor truck that he was driving and one of appellant's railway trains. The jury returned a verdict for her and the judgment entered thereon was affirmed in...

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