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SHEWMAKER v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD CO.

403 S.W.2d 283 (1966)

William Sanford SHEWMAKER, Appellant, v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

May 27, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Perlman, Fowler, Rouse, Measle & Bell, Lexington, for appellant.

Denney, Landrum, White & Patterson, Charles Landrum, Jr., Edwin R. Denney, Lexington, J. Smith Hays, Hays & Hays, Winchester, James M. Terry, Eugene W. Herde, Louisville, for appellee.

PALMORE, Judge.

The appellant, Shewmaker, brought this suit against the appellee railroad company for personal injuries and property damage sustained by him when his truck was hit by a train at a crossing in the city of Mt. Vernon. After a jury had returned a $15,757 verdict in his favor the trial court entered a judgment n. o. v. for the railroad company, and he appeals.

Shewmaker was driving his truck and a trailer of cargo southward on U.S. Highway 25....

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