UNDERWOOD v. ILLINOIS CENT. R. CO.

No. 14304.

205 F.2d 61 (1953)

UNDERWOOD et al. v. ILLINOIS CENT. R. CO.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 18, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Landman Teller, Vicksburg, Miss., Francis S. Bowling, Jackson, Miss., Fred C. Berger and Chas. F. Engle, Natchez, Miss., for appellants.

Burkett H. Martin and R. L. Dent, Vicksburg, Miss., Burch, Porter & Johnson, Memphis, Tenn., Dent, Ward & Martin, Vicksburg, Miss., for appellee.

Before HOLMES, STRUM and RIVES, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The railroad crossing accident in which the appellants were injured occurred at about 8:30 o'clock on the night of April 11, 1950, at what is known as the Selma crossing on U. S. Highway 61, about eight miles north of the city of Natchez, Mississippi. Just prior to the collision, the automobile driven by Murray, and in which Underwood was a passenger, was traveling in a southerly direction and the train had been traveling in a northerly direction...

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