MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. YARBROUGH

No. 5-1588.

315 S.W.2d 897 (1958)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, et al. Appellants, v. Maynard C. YARBROUGH, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

June 23, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pat Mehaffy and B. S. Clark, Little Rock, for appellant.

Howell, Price & Worsham by Max Howell, Little Rock, for appellee.


ROBINSON, Justice.

On the 22nd day of August, 1956, about 7:30 a. m, in Benton, at a place known as the Owosso crossing, a Missouri Pacific locomotive pulling a freight train consisting of nine cars collided with a truck being driven by appellee, Maynard C. Yarbrough. Yarbrough filed suit against the railway company and Noble Hatfield, the locomotive engineer, and obtained a judgment for damages due to personal injuries in the sum of $20,000. The railway company and...

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