SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. ELLIOTT

No. 13153.

250 F.2d 740 (1958)

SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant, v. Joseph Fred ELLIOTT and Elizabeth H. Elliott, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

January 3, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam B. Bowman and James R. Simmonds (of Simmonds, Bowman & Herndon), Johnson City, Tenn., for appellant.

Ernest F. Smith (of Penn, Hunter, Smith & Davis), Kingsport, Tenn., Ben C. Davis, Kingsport, Tenn., on brief, for appellees.

Before MILLER and STEWART, Circuit Judges, and BOYD, District Judge.


SHACKELFORD MILLER, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This action was filed by the appellees, Joseph and Elizabeth Elliott, father and mother of Tommy Elliott, their twenty-eight months old child, against the appellant, Southern Railway Company, for damages by reason of the death of their child who was killed by a train operated by the appellant.

The complaint charged the appellant with violation of the Tennessee Railroad Precautions Act, Section 2628(4), Code of Tennessee...

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