SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. MAPLES


296 S.W.2d 870 (1956)

SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. J.M. MAPLES.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simmonds, Bowman & Herndon, Johnson City, for plaintiff in error.

Fred L. Myers, Newport, Hodges & Doughty, Knoxville, for defendant in error.


NEIL, Chief Justice.

J.M. Maples brought his suit to recover damages suffered as the result of his truck, loaded with cattle and hogs, being struck by an east-bound freight train of the Southern Railway. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff and judgment was entered accordingly.

The defendant appealed and assigned errors in the Court of Appeals. The judgment of the lower court was affirmed. We now have the...

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