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HUNTER v. SEABOARD COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 14584.

443 F.2d 1319 (1971)

Robert Earle HUNTER, Appellee, v. SEABOARD COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 14, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Jolly, Jr., and James R. Trotter, Rocky Mount, N. C., (Spruill, Trotter & Lane, Rocky Mount, N. C., on brief) for appellant.

William L. Thorp, Jr., Rocky Mount, N. C., and T. LaFontine Odom, Charlotte, N. C. (Weinstein, Waggoner, Sturges, Odom & Bigger, Charlotte, N. C., and Thorp & Etheridge, Rocky Mount, N. C., on brief) for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and BRYAN, Circuit Judges.

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge:

At a crossing in Battleboro, North Carolina, on November 14, 1967 about 8:00 A.M., a train of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company struck a tractor-trailer operated by Robert Earle Hunter. In an action for damages alleging the railroad's negligence as the cause of his injuries, Hunter obtained a jury award of $200,000.00. Appealing, the company assigns several errors, but only two are...

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