ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. v. GASKIN

Nos. 14330 and 14321.

203 F.2d 360 (1953)

ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. v. GASKIN. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. v. SPIKES.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 27, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. B. Copeland, Valdosta, Ga., S. Spencer Bennet, Quitman, Ga., and Copeland & Converse, Valdosta, Ga., for appellant.

J. Dorsey Blalock and J. Edwin Peavy, and Kopp & Peavy and Blalock & Blalock, all of Waycross, Ga., for appellees.

Before HOLMES, STRUM and RIVES, Circuit Judges.


STRUM, Circuit Judge.

These are typical grade crossing cases, involving a collision between a railroad train and an automobile. In the Gaskin case, plaintiff's decedent was the driver of the automobile. The plaintiff in the Spikes case was a passenger therein.

The evidence is in conflict as to the speed of the train, whether the blinker signal at the crossing was in operation, whether whistle and bell signals were sounded, whether the engineer and fireman...

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