MARTIN v. JOHNS


78 So.2d 398 (1955)

John W. MARTIN, as Trustee for Florida East Coast Railway Company, a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. Gus JOHNS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division A.

March 2, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anderson, Scott, McCarthy & Preston, Dwight Sullivan, Miami, and Russell L. Frink, Jacksonville, for appellant.

J.B. Patterson, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.


SANDLER, Associate Justice.

Gus Johns, plaintiff in the lower Court, sued the railroad company for injuries sustained by him claimed to have been inflicted by negligent operation of one of its passenger trains. The case went to trial before a jury on the issues made by the complaint and the denial by the defendant of the negligence charged against it. The collision took place at a railroad crossing in the City of Fort Lauderdale...

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