LOUISIANA & ARKANSAS RY. CO. v. SMITH

No. 12456.

133 F.2d 436 (1943)

LOUISIANA & ARKANSAS RY. CO. v. SMITH.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

February 11, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben Shaver, of Texarkana, Ark. (A. L. Burford and A. G. Sanderson, Jr., both of Texarkana, Ark., on the brief), for appellant.

W. S. Atkins, of Hope, Ark. (Ned Stewart, of Texarkana, Ark., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.


WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company brings this appeal from a judgment recovered by Leroy Smith, plaintiff, as damages for personal injuries received in a crossing collision. The accident which gave rise to this suit occurred on a clear day in mid-afternoon of September 17, 1941, when the motor truck which plaintiff was driving, a semi-trailer unit heavily loaded with logs, collided with defendant's southbound freight train at a...

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