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BRINSON v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 16109.

241 F.2d 494 (1957)

Sam E. BRINSON, and Sam E. Brinson and Maudie M. Brinson, Appellants, v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 1, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. K. Theus, Monroe, La., J. D. DeBlieux, E. Drew McKinnis, Baton Rouge, La., for appellants.

Selim B. Lemle, New Orleans, La., M. C. Thompson, Monroe, La., Joseph H. Wright, John W. Freels, Chicago, Ill., Thompson, Thompson & Sparks, Monroe, La., Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellee.

Before BORAH, TUTTLE and CAMERON, Circuit Judges.

BORAH, Circuit Judge.

These appeals in two railroad grade crossing cases come to us on one consolidated record and are from separate judgments for the defendant, Illinois Central Railroad Company, notwithstanding the verdicts of the jury for the plaintiffs.

The accident which gave rise to this litigation occurred at defendant's mainline crossing on Chicago Street in Delhi, Louisiana, when a passenger train collided...

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