ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN R. CO. v. JOHNSON

No. 10823.

140 F.2d 968 (1944)

ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN R. CO. et al. v. JOHNSON et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 10, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben F. Cameron and Lester E. Wills, both of Meridian, Miss., for appellants.

Marion W. Reily, of Meridian, Miss., for appellees.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Brought by the parents and the brothers and sisters of Roger Johnson, age 12, and J. B. Johnson, Jr., age 10, who had been run over and killed while at and on a public crossing, the suit was for the damages recoverable under the Mississippi Statute.1 The claim was that their deaths were due to the negligence of the defendants, railroad company and Roden, its engineer, in not sounding the statutory signals and...

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