ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. v. PIDD

No. 13757.

197 F.2d 153 (1952)

ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. v. PIDD.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 21, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. L. Reeves, Tampa, Fla., Charles Cook Howell, Wilmington, N. C., for appellant.

William A. Hamilton, Olin E. Watts, Jacksonville, Fla., John Marshall Green, Ocala, Fla., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and BORAH and STRUM, Circuit Judges.


STRUM, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in a railroad grade crossing case, tried to a jury, with verdict for plaintiff below.

Mrs. W. D. Pidd, a 46 year old housewife for whose death the verdict was returned, was driving a car with her sister as a passenger in the right-hand front seat, along U. S. Highway 441. About one mile east of the town of Oklawaha, in Marion County, Florida, where the highway runs approximately in an easterly-westerly direction, defendant...

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