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

No. 10727.

172 F.2d 217 (1949)

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

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

January 24, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Hutter, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn. (R. Garland Draper, of Memphis, Tenn., on the brief; David C. Doten, A. D. Bearman and James L. Hutter, Jr., all of Memphis, Tenn., of counsel), for appellant.

Cooper Turner, Jr., and Canada, Russell & Turner, all of Memphis, Tenn., for appellee.

Before SIMONS, MARTIN and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.


SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant is the administrator of the estate of his daughter who was killed while riding as a guest in an automobile when the car was on a bridge over the tracks of the appellee railroad in Shelby County, Tennessee. The car struck the railing of the bridge approach causing one of its timbers to crash through the windshield of the car, striking the girl's chest, and causing her death on the following...

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