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ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. SAPP

No. 16425.

248 F.2d 889 (1957)

ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. Mrs. Woodrow SAPP, Mrs. James H. Tyre and Mrs. Leroy Beckham, Sr., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 24, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry E. Pedrick, Waycross, Ga., L. J. Bennet, Brunswick, Ga., Bennett, Pedrick & Bennett, Waycross, Ga., of counsel, for appellant.

J. H. Highsmith, Baxley, Ga., E. Way Highsmith, Brunswick, Ga., James P. Mozingo, III, Darlington, S. C., for appellees.

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

BORAH, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from adverse judgments entered upon jury verdicts in three separate actions brought by appellees to recover damages for the wrongful deaths of their respective sons, Leonard Holmes, Perman Trye, and Leroy Beckham, Jr., which occurred when a 1950 Oldsmobile automobile in which they were riding was driven into a train of freight cars moving across Pyles Marsh Crossing between Brunswick and Jesup, Georgia.

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