ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. v. GRIMES

37717.

99 Ga. App. 774 (1959)

109 S.E.2d 890

ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY et al. v. GRIMES.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided July 1, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas W. Matthews, R. A. Moore, Jay, Garden & Jay, Allan C. Garden, for plaintiffs in error.

Dewey Hayes, McDonald & McDonald, J. C. McDonald, contra.


FELTON, Chief Judge.

1. J. Clark Grimes, husband of the plaintiff, was struck and killed on June 26, 1956, by a freight train of the defendant railroad operated by defendant Braswell while Grimes was attempting to cross the main-line track on a paved road in the city of Ambrose, Georgia. The evidence discloses that Grimes operated a grocery store to the northeast of the crossing; that in the late afternoon he had proceeded to the postoffice, which is located in a...

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