DEAN v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY

No. 15259.

327 F.2d 757 (1964)

Geraldine Gilbert DEAN, Administratrix of the Estate of Oscar Lee Dean, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY and Anthony Raines, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

February 15, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Winston, Jr., Norton, Va., and Harry N. Fortune, Johnson City, Tenn., Greear, Bowen, Mullins & Winston, Norton, Va., Simmonds, Bowman & Herndon, Johnson City, Tenn., on brief, for defendants-appellants.

John F. Dugger, Morristown, Tenn., H. M. Bacon, Morristown, Tenn., on brief; Bacon & Dugger, Morristown, Tenn., of counsel, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CECIL, Chief Judge, MILLER, Circuit Judge, and DARR, Senior District Judge.


DARR, Senior District Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for $18,000 entered on the verdict of a jury against Southern Railway Company and its engineer, Anthony Raines, for the alleged negligent death of Oscar Lee Dean as a result of a collision between Mr. Dean's truck and a train of defendant company at a public highway crossing in a rural area in Lee County, Virginia. The public highway is known as U.S. Highway 23. The parties will be hereinafter referred to...

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