ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RY. CO. v. WILLINGHAM

No. 13951.

177 F.2d 167 (1949)

ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RY. CO. v. WILLINGHAM.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

October 26, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. G. Nahler, St. Louis, Mo., and E. L. Westbrooke, Jr., Jonesboro, Ark., submitted brief for appellant.

Frank Sloan Jonesboro, Ark., submitted brief for appellee.

Before WOODROUGH, THOMAS and RIDDICK, Circuit Judges.


THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

The appellee Willingham, a farmer, while walking with his wife toward the west along the tracks of the appellant Railway Company in Arkansas was struck by one of appellant's trains and injured. He brought this action for damages against appellant, alleging that his injury was the proximate result of the negligence of appellant, (a) in failing to give the statutory warning signals for a crossing about one-half mile east of the place where the...

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