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BUSSELL v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.

No. 5-3153.

376 S.W.2d 545 (1964)

Mrs. Helen Louise BUSSELL, Adm'x Estate of Ben Edward Bussell, Deceased, and Burks Motor Freight Line, Inc., Appellants, v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. and W. B. Keahey, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

March 16, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williamson, Williamson & Ball, Monticello, Coleman, Gantt & Ramsay, Pine Bluff, for appellants.

W. J. Smith and Robert V. Light, Little Rock, for appellees.

HOLT, Justice.

This case results from a railroad crossing accident. It occurred when a Missouri Pacific freight train and a tractor-trailer truck collided where the railroad tracks cross the "new Monticello by-pass" portion of State Highway #81 at a right angle. The driver of the tractor-trailer, Ben Edward Bussell, was killed, the truck was practically demolished and part of its cargo destroyed. The train engine, two freight cars and a portion of the railroad track...

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